Lx. Huang et al., LAYER PHASE ON NONISOTROPIC SU(2) LATTICE GAUGE-MODEL AT FINITE-TEMPERATURE, Journal of physics. G, Nuclear and particle physics, 21(9), 1995, pp. 1183-1188
The non-isotropic Abelian U(1) lattice gauge model at finite temperatu
re is extended to the system with a non-isotropic non-Abelian SU(2) ga
uge symmetry. Based on the variational-cumulant expansion (VCE) to the
fourth order, we find that the layer phase proposed by Fu and Nielsen
also exists in this system in the cases D = 5, d = 4 and D = 4, d = 3
, and the lowest dimension of the layer phase at finite temperature is
lower than at zero temperature. Combined with the investigations for
the non-isotropic U(1) lattice gauge system, we consider that the laye
r phases may exist in various cases for these two symmetrical systems
and even for other Abelian and non-Abelian lattice gauge systems when
the temperature approaches infinity (T --> infinity). This implies tha
t: particles studied by physicists obtain sufficient energy to pass th
rough the 'wall' between two layers, which is thought of as a `confine
d' direction at zero temperature, and all communications among layers
is easier. Thus, we may further suppose that the layer phase is dissol
ved in the early universe, which is believed to be a very hot system.