Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 4582–4585 (1999)Relevance of Center Vortices to QCDReceived 28 January 1999; published in the issue dated 7 June 1999 In a numerical experiment, we remove center vortices from an ensemble of lattice SU(2) gauge configurations. This removal adds short-range disorder. Nevertheless, we observe long-range order in the modified ensemble: confinement is lost and chiral symmetry is restored (together with trivial topology), proving that center vortices are responsible for both phenomena. As for the Abelian monopoles, they survive but their percolation properties are lost. © 1999 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.4582
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.82.4582
PACS:
12.38.Gc, 11.15.Ha, 11.30.Rd, 12.38.Aw
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