Kei-Ichi Kondo, Akihiro Shibata, Toru Shinohara, Seikou Kato
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We show that the non-Abelian magnetic monopole defined in a gauge-invariant way in SU(3) Yang-Mills theory gives a dominant contribution to confinement of the fundamental quark, in sharp contrast to the SU(2) case.
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We show that the non-Abelian magnetic monopole defined in a gauge-invariant way in SU(3) Yang-Mills theory gives a dominant contribution to confinement of the fundamental quark, in sharp contrast to the SU(2) case.
Key concepts: Magnetic monopole, Abelian group, Wilson loop, Physics, Invariant (physics), Gauge theory, Quark, Color confinement