出版社：SISSA, Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati
摘要：Gluon field configurations with non-trivial topology like instantons, magnetic monopoles and
center vortices play a crucial role in QCD and, in particular, for the spontaneous breaking of
chiral symmetry. Moreover, center vortices are strongly correlated with confinement. We present
evidence, that there is a deep connection between the topology of gauge fields and center vortices.
We use the chirally improved lattice Dirac operator to compute eigenvectors and eigenvalues of
various lattice gauge field configurations. Removing vortices from thermalized configurations
also removes the topological content of the gauge field. As a consistency check, we apply random
changes to the raw configurations.
