Can the Effective Potential Determine Whether a Given Theory Exhibits Confinement

摘要

When dealing with a quantum field theory, an inspection of the logarithmic terms of its effective potential may decide whether it exhibits (or not) confinement. Inspiring ourselves on classical field theory we are able to establish rules of confinement. These rules are then applied, with success, in various models whose effective potentials we know (in the one loop approximation). (Atomindex citation 10:431198)