"There is no roughening singularity at finite temperature" by Frederic Green
 

Computer Science

There is no roughening singularity at finite temperature

Frederic Green, Northeastern University

Abstract

It is shown, for any non-zero temperature and finite coupling, that there are large transverse fluctuations in the electric flux tubes connecting quark-antiquark pairs. For large qq separation L, the average distance of the flux tube from its equilibrium position diverges like √L. Hence the flux tube is rough. The consequent absence of a roughening singularity may imply that rotational invariance and the continuum limit are approached more gradually than at zero temperature. © 1983.