Abstract
We calculate the average thermal Wilson loop L in finite temperature SU(2) gauge theory, using Monte Carlo simulation on a 10 3 × 4 lattice. As the temperature T approaches the deconfinement point T c from above, we expect L ∼ (T − T c ) β with β⋍ 0.33, if the critical behaviour of SU(2) gauge theory is the same as that of Z 2 spin theory. Our results give β = 0.32 ± 0.03, in very good agreement with this universality conjecture.
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