@article{db190584be9c455e8a4984c6b54ffbbf,
title = "Symmetry aspects of finite-temperature confinement transitions",
abstract = "Analytical and numerical work on confinement phase transitions in finite-temperature Abelian and non-Abelian gauge theories is reviewed. These transitions are order-disorder transitions and their critical properties (if any) can be understood from the standard theory of critical phenomena. Strong coupling, large-N, and non-perturbative lattice methods are discussed. The role of matter fields as symmetry-breaking perturbations is noted as important to the eventual unraveling of the phase structure of quantum chromodynamics.",
author = "Benjamin Svetitsky",
note = "Funding Information: It is a pleasure to acknowledge the collaboration of L. Yaffe on the hitherto unpublished work presented in section 5. I thank 0. Batrouni, S. Beck, T. DeGrand, R. Gupta, L. McLerran, and L. Yaffe for many valuable comments on the manuscript, and F. Klinkhamer and J. Polonyi for useful conversations. The hospitality of the Nuclear Science Division of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory at the time this paper was begun is appreciated. This work was partially supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. PHY82-09011 and by the Department of Energy under Grant No. DE-ACO2-76ER03069.",
year = "1986",
month = feb,
doi = "10.1016/0370-1573(86)90014-1",
language = "אנגלית",
volume = "132",
pages = "1--53",
journal = "Physics Reports",
issn = "0370-1573",
publisher = "Elsevier B.V.",
number = "1",
}