Interpreting Quantum Chromodynamics from Spin Glass- and Polymer Analogies

TL;DR

This paper offers an informal interpretation of quantum chromodynamics using analogies from spin glasses and polymers, emphasizing duality and the non-abelian nature of SU(3) to explain confinement and asymptotic freedom.

Contribution

It introduces an Ising lattice QCD framework to interpret QCD phenomena through magnetism and polymer physics analogies, highlighting duality and non-abelian aspects.

Findings

Interpretation of confinement via magnetic analogies

Explanation of asymptotic freedom through polymer models

Emphasis on duality and non-abelian group properties

Abstract

In an informal way some kind of Ising Lattice QCD is introduced which allows to interprete and discuss the well-known theory of quantum chromodynamics (confinement, quarks and gluons, etc.) from simple phenomena of magnetism and polymer physics. Also the viewpoint of duality is stressed. Moreover, the non-abelian character of the Lie group SU(3) is important. The essential arguments for confinement and asymptotic freedom are given at the very end of the manuscript, after an appendix.