When the center matters: color screening and gluelumps in dihedral lattice gauge theories

arXiv:2512.00152 · hep-lat, quant-ph · Submitted 2025-11-28 · Read on arXiv

hep-lat, quant-ph

Submitted: 2025-11-28

Updated: 2026-09-22

Comments: 5 + 11 pages, 4 + 3 figures

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Anyons — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Hilbert Space — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Phase Transitions — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Topological Order — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Effective Hamiltonian — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verification — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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