On the non-physical concavity of the quark potentials within the thick center vortex model

TL;DR

This paper investigates the non-physical upward concavity in quark potentials predicted by the thick center vortex model and proposes a method to reduce it by adjusting vortex flux symmetry.

Contribution

It identifies the cause of non-physical concavity in the model and introduces a symmetric vortex flux approach to mitigate this issue.

Findings

Non-physical concavity can be reduced with symmetric vortex flux

The model better aligns with lattice gauge theory results after adjustment

Upward concavity is not an inherent physical feature

Abstract

Lattice gauge theory results show the confinement for the quark potential in different Yang-Mills theories and even the G(2) gauge theory. LGT calculations show that quark potential should have the down concavity behavior. Confinement properties can be explained using the thick center vortex model. However an upward concavity is seen in the quark potential intervals using this model. After study the reason of this concavity, it is shown the non physical concavity can be reduced by taking an arbitrary symmetric vortex flux in the space time plane of the lattice.