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Emergent photons vs confinement: the roles of vortices and monopoles by Mendel Nguyen

Title : Emergent photons vs confinement: the roles of vortices and monopoles Speaker : Mendel Nguyen (Durham University, United Kingdom) Date : Thursday, 13 November 2025 Time : 3:30 PM (IST) Abstract : Two competing pictures of the confinement mechanism in 3+1D non-abelian gauge theory have been the proliferation of center vortices and the proliferation of magnetic monopoles. In this talk, I will provide a unified and surprising picture of confinement, which clarifies some confusion in the literature concerning the role of vortices. In particular, I will argue that whereas the simultaneous proliferation of vortices and monopoles leads to the gapped confining phase, vortex proliferation without monopole proliferation leads instead to a gapless Coulomb phase.