Research Article

Emergent Inert Adjoint Scalar Field in SU(2) Yang-Mills Thermodynamics due to Coarse-Grained Topological Fluctuations

Figure 1

Possible values of the Polyakov loop 𝒫 at spatial infinity on a given gauge-field configuration. A small holonomy corresponds to values close to the center elements depicted by the dots. Crosses indicate examples for a large holonomy.
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