Thermal Abelian monopoles as selfdual dyons

TL;DR

This paper investigates the properties of thermal Abelian monopoles in SU(2) gluodynamics, revealing they are selfdual dyons with equal electric and magnetic fields that decay exponentially, across a range of temperatures.

Contribution

First computations of the excess nonabelian action density around thermal Abelian monopoles, demonstrating their dyonic nature with equal electric and magnetic components.

Findings

Monopoles are selfdual dyons with equal chromoelectric and chromomagnetic densities.

Electric and magnetic fields decay exponentially with distance from monopole center.

Results are consistent across temperatures from 1.5 to 4.8 times T_c.

Abstract

The properties of the thermal Abelian monopoles are studied in the deconfinement phase of the SU(2) gluodynamics. To remove effects of Gribov copies the simulated annealing algorithm is applied to fix the maximally Abelian gauge. To study monopole profile we complete the first computations of excess of the nonabelian action density as a function of the distance from the center of the thermal Abelian monopole. We have found that starting from the distances $\approx$ 2 lattice spacings the chromoelectric and chromomagnetic action densities created by monopole are equal to each other, from what we draw a conclusion that monopole is a dyon. Furthermore, we find that the chromoelectric and chromomagnetic fields decrease exponentially with increasing distance. These findings were confirmed for different temperatures in the range $T/T_c \in (1.5, 4.8)$.