ELECTRIC-FIELDS AND MONOPOLE CURRENTS IN COMPACT QED

The confinement in compact QED is known to be related to magnetic mono poles. Magnetic currents form a solenoid around electric flux lines be tween a pair of electric charges. This behaviour can be described by t he dual version of Maxwell-London equations including a fluctuating st ring. We use a definition of magnetic monopole currents adjusted to th e definition of the electric field strength on a lattice and get good agreement for field and current distributions between compact QED and the predictions of dual Maxwell-London equations. Further we show that the monopole fluctuations in the vacuum are suppressed by the flux tu be.