Phases of gauge theories

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Winter '03

Jan.17 Rob Fardon

   Duality in 2D Ising model, phases of Ising gauge theory
   AN INTRODUCTION TO LATTICE GAUGE THEORY AND SPIN SYSTEMS.
   John B. Kogut Rev. Mod. Phys.51:659,1979

Jan.24 Pavel Kovtun

   Classification of phases in gauge theories
   ON THE PHASE TRANSITION TOWARDS PERMANENT QUARK CONFINEMENT.
   Gerard 't Hooft  Nucl. Phys. B138:1, 1978
   A PROPERTY OF ELECTRIC AND MAGNETIC FLUX IN NONABELIAN GAUGE THEORIES. 
   Gerard 't Hooft Nucl. Phys. B153:141, 1979

Jan.31 Dan Arndt

   Duality in Z(N) theories
   DUAL VARIABLES FOR LATTICE GAUGE THEORIES AND THE PHASE 
   STRUCTURE OF Z(N) SYSTEMS.
   Akira Ukawa, Paul Windey, Alan H. Guth Phys. Rev. D21:1013, 1980

Feb.7 Andrei Kryjevski

   Equivalence of Higgs and confining phases
   PHASE DIAGRAMS OF LATTICE GAUGE THEORIES WITH HIGGS FIELDS.
   Eduardo H. Fradkin, Stephen H. Shenker Phys.Rev. D19:3682, 1979
   LIGHT COMPOSITE FERMIONS. S. Dimopoulos, S. Raby, Leonard Susskind 
   Nucl. Phys. B173:208, 1980

Feb.14 Adam Clark

   Confinement-deconfinement transition
   CRITICAL BEHAVIOR AT FINITE TEMPERATURE CONFINEMENT TRANSITIONS.
   Benjamin Svetitsky, Laurence G. Yaffe Nucl. Phys. B210:423, 1982
   REMARKS ON THE CHIRAL PHASE TRANSITION IN CHROMODYNAMICS.
   Robert D. Pisarski, Frank Wilczek Phys. Rev. D29:338, 1984

Feb.21 Ruth Van de Water

   Notes on theta_QCD
   LARGE N CHIRAL DYNAMICS. Edward Witten Annals Phys. 128:363, 1980
   Also something by I.Halperin, A.Zhitnitsky...

Feb.28 Jaeyong Lee

   Supersymmetric examples
   ELECTRIC - MAGNETIC DUALITY IN SUPERSYMMETRIC NONABELIAN GAUGE THEORIES.
   N. Seiberg Nucl.Phys.B435:129-146,1995 hep-th/9411149, maybe also
   PHASES OF N=1 SUPERSYMMETRIC GAUGE THEORIES AND ELECTRIC-MAGNETIC TRIALITY.
   Kenneth A. Intriligator, N. Seiberg  hep-th/ 9506084

Mar.7 George Newman

   Electroweak phase transition}
   THE ELECTROWEAK PHASE TRANSITION: PART 1. REVIEW OF PERTURBATIVE METHODS.
   Peter Arnold hep-ph/ 9410294
   THE UNIVERSALITY CLASS OF THE ELECTROWEAK THEORY.
   K. Rummukainen, M. Tsypin, K. Kajantie, M. Laine, Mikhail E. Shaposhnikov
   Nucl. Phys. B532:283,1998  hep-lat/ 9805013

Mar.14 Jackson Wu

   Showing confinement in 2+1 dimensions
   QUARK CONFINEMENT AND TOPOLOGY OF GAUGE GROUPS.
   Alexander M. Polyakov Nucl. Phys. B120:429, 1977