String effects in Polyakov loop correlators
arXiv:hep-lat/0210023 · doi:10.1016/S0920-5632(03)01595-0
Abstract
We compare the predictions of the effective string description of confinement in finite temperature gauge theories to high precision Monte Carlo data for the three-dimensional Z(2) gauge theory. We show that string interaction effects become more relevant as the temperature is increased towards the deconfinement one, and are well modeled by a Nambu-Goto string action.
Lattice2002(nonzerot)