https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201716403004
Hamiltonian approach to QCD in Coulomb gauge: Gribov’s confinement scenario at work*
Universität Tübingen Institut für Theoretische Physik Auf der Morgenstelle 14 D-72076 Tübingen Germany
a e-mail: hugo.reinhardt@uni-tuebingen.de
Published online: 5 December 2017
I will review essential features of the Hamiltonian approach to QCD in Coulomb gauge showing that Gribov's confinement scenario is realized in this gauge. For this purpose I will discuss in detail the emergence of the horizon condition and the Coulomb string tension. I will show that both are induced by center vortex gauge field configurations, which establish the connection between Gribov’s confinement scenario and the center vortex picture of confinement. I will then extend the Hamiltonian approach to QCD in Coulomb gauge to finite temperatures, first by the usual grand canonical ensemble and second by the compactification of a spatial dimension. I will present results for the pressure, energy density and interaction measure as well as for the Polyakov loop.
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