Vacuum background fields in QCD as a source of confinement

Abstract

Quarks and gluons in the vacuum background field with a finite correlation length d are shown to be linearly confined inside white states. The string tension for an arbitrary representation of SU( N) is obtained in terms of d and the gluon condensate and agrees with numerical data and large N behaviour. The QCD string picture is shown to emerge asymptotically at large euclidean distances.