Gluon condensate

In quantum chromodynamics (QCD), the gluon condensate is a non-perturbative property of the QCD vacuum which could be partly responsible for giving masses to light mesons.

If the gluon field tensor is represented as G_μν, then the gluon condensate is the vacuum expectation value $\langle G_{\mu \nu }G^{\mu \nu }\rangle$ .^[1] It is not clear yet whether this condensate is related to any of the known phase changes^[which?] in quark matter. There have been scattered studies of other types of gluon condensates, involving a different number of gluon fields.

For more on the context in which this quantity occurs, see the article on the QCD vacuum.

References

^ Savvidy, G.K. (7 Nov 1977). "Infrared instability of the vacuum state of gauge theories and asymptotic freedom". Physics Letters B. 71 (1). Elsevier BV: 133–134. Bibcode:1977PhLB...71..133S. doi:10.1016/0370-2693(77)90759-6. ISSN 0370-2693.

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[1] Savvidy, G.K. (7 Nov 1977). "Infrared instability of the vacuum state of gauge theories and asymptotic freedom". Physics Letters B. 71 (1). Elsevier BV: 133–134. Bibcode:1977PhLB...71..133S. doi:10.1016/0370-2693(77)90759-6. ISSN 0370-2693.

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