Deconfinement phase transition in mirror of symmetries

M. N. Chernodub ; A. Nakamura ; V. I. Zakharov

Informatics and Automation, Problems of modern theoretical and mathematical physics: Gauge theories and superstrings, Tome 272 (2011), pp. 84-96.

Résumé

We argue that the deconfinement phase transition in Yang–Mills theories can be viewed as a change of effective non-perturbative degrees of freedom and of symmetries of their interactions. In short, the strings in four dimensions (4d) at temperatures below the critical temperature $T_\mathrm c$ are replaced by particles, or field theories in 3d at $T>T_\mathrm c$. The picture emerges within various approaches based on dual models, lattice data and effective field theoretic models. We concentrate mostly on the lattice data, or the language of quantum geometry.

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