https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-011-1658-6
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
A new approach to the study of effective string corrections in LGTs
Dipartimento di Fisica Teorica dell’Università di Torino and I.N.F.N., Via Pietro Giuria 1, 10125, Torino, Italy
* e-mail: caselle@to.infn.it
Received:
28
March
2011
Revised:
5
May
2011
Published online:
31
May
2011
We propose a new approach to the study of the interquark potential in Lattice Gauge Theories. Instead of looking at the expectation value of Polyakov loop correlators we study the modifications induced in the chromoelectric flux by the presence of the Polyakov loops. In abelian LGTs, thanks to duality, this study can be performed in a very efficient way, allowing to reach high precision at a reasonable CPU cost. The major advantage of this strategy is that it allows us to eliminate the dominant effective string correction to the interquark potential (the Lüscher term) thus giving an unique opportunity to test higher order corrections. Performing a set of simulations in the 3d spin Ising model and then translating the result in the 3d gauge Ising model using duality, we were thus able to precisely identify and measure both the quartic and the sextic effective string corrections to the interquark potential. While the quartic term perfectly agrees with the Nambu–Goto one the sextic term is definitely different. Our result seems to disagree with the recent proof of the universality of the sextic correction. We discuss a few possible explanations of this disagreement.
© Springer-Verlag / Società Italiana di Fisica, 2011