Non-Abelian dual superconductivity in SU(3) Yang-Mills theory: Dual Meissner effect and type of the vacuum

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

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.87.054011

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Non-Abelian dual superconductivity in SU(3) Yang-Mills theory: Dual Meissner effect and type of the vacuum

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

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevD.87.054011 · Physical Review D

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Abstract

We have proposed the non-Abelian dual superconductivity picture for quark confinement in the SU(3) Yang-Mills (YM) theory, and have given numerical evidences for the restricted-field dominance and the non-Abelian magnetic monopole dominance in the string tension by applying a new formulation of the YM theory on a lattice. To establish the non-Abelian dual superconductivity picture for quark confinement, we have observed the non-Abelian dual Meissner effect in the SU(3) Yang-Mills theory by measuring the chromoelectric flux created by the quark-antiquark source, and the non-Abelian magnetic monopole currents induced around the flux. We conclude that the dual superconductivity of the SU(3) Yang-Mills theory is strictly the type I and that this type of dual superconductivity is reproduced by the restricted field and the non-Abelian magnetic monopole part, in sharp contrast to the SU(2) case: the border of type I and type II.