1209.0311 (Kei-Ichi Kondo et al.)

Quark confinement due to non-Abelian magnetic monopoles in SU(3)
Yang-Mills theory    [PDF]

Kei-Ichi Kondo, Akihiro Shibata, Toru Shinohara, Seikou Kato

We present recent results on quark confinement: in SU(3) Yang-Mills theory, confinement of fundamental quarks is obtained due to the dual Meissner effect originated from non-Abelian magnetic monopoles defined in a gauge-invariant way, which is distinct from the well-known Abelian projection scenario. This is achieved by using a non-Abelian Stokes theorem for the Wilson loop operator and a new reformulation of the Yang-Mills theory.

View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.0311