Conference Contributions
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Measurement of the Yang-Mills vacuum wave-functional in lattice simulations.
Invited talk (PDF file of the talk and written version for proceedings)
at the
4th Winter Workshop on Non-Perturbative Quantum Field Theory,
INLN, Sophia Antipolis, France, February 2-5, 2015.
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The Yang-Mills vacuum wave-functional thirty-five years later.
Invited research talk (PDF file of the talk and written version in proceedings)
at the symposium
"DISCRETE 2014",
King's College, London, UK, December 2-6, 2014.
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Numerical study of the SU(2) Yang-Mills vacuum state: Much ado about nothing?
Invited talk (PDF file of the talk and written version for proceedings)
at the workshop
"QCD-TNT-III From quarks and gluons to hadronic matter: A bridge too far?",
ECT*, Trento, Italy, September 2-6, 2013.
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Measuring the ground-state wave functional of SU(2) Yang-Mills theory in 3+1 dimensions: Abelian plane waves.
Contribution (poster and written version for proceedings)
at the 31st Int. Symp. on Lattice Field Theory
"Lattice 2013",
Mainz, Germany, July 29-August 3, 2013.
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Testing the Yang-Mills vacuum wave functional Ansatz in 3+1 dimensions.
Contribution (talk and written version for proceedings)
at the conference
"Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum X",
Munich, Germany, October 8-12, 2012.
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In quest of the Yang-Mills vacuum wave functional.
Invited talk (PDF file of the talk and written version for proceedings)
at the workshop
"The Many Faces of QCD",
Ghent, Belgium, November 1-5, 2010.
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Properties of the approximate Yang-Mills ground-state wave functional in
2+1 dimensions.
Contribution (talk and written version for proceedings)
at the international conference
"Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum IX",
Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain, August 30-September 3, 2010.
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The QCD vacuum wave-functional and confinement in Coulomb gauge.
Contribution (talk and written version for proceedings
at the 28th Int. Symp. on Lattice Field Theory
"Lattice 2010",
Villasimius, Sardinia, Italy, June 14-19, 2010.
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Ground-state solution of the Yang-Mills Schroedinger equation in 2+1 dimensions.
MS PowerPoint file[*]
of the talk at the
Erwin Schroedinger Symposium 2009,
Prague, Czech Republic, November 20-21, 2009.
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Vacuum structure and Casimir scaling in Yang-Mills theories.
Invited talk
(MS PowerPoint file[*]
and
written version
for proceedings)
at the QCD-TNT Int. Workshop on QCD Green's Functions, Confinement, and
Phenomenology, ECT*, Trento, Italy, Sep. 7-11, 2009.
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Gluon chains and the quark-antiquark potential.
Contribution
(poster
and
written version
for proceedings)
at the 27th Int. Symp. on Lattice Field Theory
"LATTICE 2009",
July 25-31, 2009, Beijing, China.
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An approximate vacuum state of temporal-gauge Yang-Mills theory in 2+1 dimensions.
MS PowerPoint file[*] or
PDF file,
contribution at the 415th Wilhelm & Else Heraeus Seminar
Quarks and Hadrons in Strong QCD, St. Goar, Germany, March 17-20, 2008.
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Confinement and screening in SU(N) and G(2) gauge theories.
MS PowerPoint file[*],
invited talk at the workshop
The Many Faces of Quantum Fields, Leiden,
the Netherlands, April 10-13, 2007.
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Simple (approximate) YM vacuum wave-functional in 2+1 dimensions from gauge invariance.
MS PowerPoint file[*],
seminar at the conference
QCD: Facts and Prospects, Oberwoelz,
Austria, September 10-16, 2006.
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Gribov horizon under the (lattice) microscope.
Contribution
(poster
and
written version
for proceedings)
at the 23rd Int. Symp. on Lattice Field Theory
"LATTICE 2005",
July 25-30, 2005, Dublin, Ireland.
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Relations between the Gribov-horizon and center-vortex confinement
scenarios.
Plenary talk
(MS PowerPoint file[*] and
written version
for proceedings)
at the conference
Quark
Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum VI, Tanka Village (Villasimius),
Sardinia, Italy, September 21-25, 2004.
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Zooming in on the Gribov horizon.
MS PowerPoint file[*]
of a talk at the workshop
The
QCD Vacuum from a Lattice Perspective, Regensburg,
Germany, July 29-31, 2004.
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Center vortices on the lattice.
Lecture
(transparencies)
at the
Channel Meeting on Theoretical Particle Physics, Plymouth,
United Kingdom, August 20-24, 2002.
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Status of center dominance in various center gauges.
Lecture (transparencies and
written version
for proceedings)
at the
NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Confinement, Topology, and
other Non-Perturbative Aspects of QCD,
January 21-27, 2002, Stará Lesná, Slovakia.
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Kvarky a gluóny za mrežami.
Set of
transparencies (in Slovak, PDF file, about 2.5 Mb)
of a plenary talk at the
12th Conference of Slovak Physicists,
September 3-5, 2001, Smolenice, Slovakia.
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Center Dominance Recovered: Direct Laplacian Center Gauge.
Contribution
(transparencies and
written version
for proceedings)
at the conference
LATTICE 2001,
August 18-24, 2001, Berlin, FRG.
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Center vortices and colour confinement in lattice QCD.
Plenary talk
(transparencies and
written version
for proceedings)
at the 4th International Conference on
"QUARK CONFINEMENT AND THE HADRON SPECTRUM",
July 3-8, 2000, Vienna, Austria.
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On the role of center vortices in the confinement mechanism.
Invited talk
(transparencies)
at the Workshop
"SEMIHARD QCD_2000",
April 29-May 3, 2000, Cracow, Poland.
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Some pieces of lattice evidence in favor of the center-vortex
picture of color confinement.
Invited talk
(transparencies and
written version
for proceedings)
at the NATO Advanced Research Workshop
"LATTICE FERMIONS AND STRUCTURE OF THE VACUUM",
October 5-9, 1999, Dubna, Russia.
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Some insights into the method of center projection.
Poster
(poster and
written version
for proceedings)
at the 17th Int. Symp. on Lattice Field Theory
"LATTICE 99",
Jun 29-July 3, 1999, Pisa, Italy.
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Seminars and Outreach Lectures
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Scény z fyzikálneho żivota alebo Jednosmerný Kinoautomat
PDF file
(mainly in Slovak) of a farewell seminar in the Institute of Physics SAS, Bratislava, February 2, 2018.
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LEGO® sveta, v ktorom žijeme.
PDF file
(mainly in Slovak) of a lecture for high-school students, Gymnázium Tomášikova, Bratislava, June 9, 2015.
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Skrytý pôvab symetrie alebo Prechádzka po svete elementárnych častíc.
PDF file
(mainly in Slovak) of an outreach lecture at CVTI, Bratislava, February 27, 2014.
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Higgsov bozón: pravdy a mýty.
PDF file
(mainly in Slovak) of a lecture for students during the Day of Open Doors of the Institute of Physics SAS, Bratislava, November 14, 2013.
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Skrytý pôvab symetrie (Nobelova cena za fyziku 2013).
PDF file
(mainly in Slovak) of a seminar in the Institute of Physics SAS, Bratislava, November 11, 2013.
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LEGO® sveta, v ktorom žijeme.
MS PowerPoint file[*]
(mainly in Slovak) of a lecture at the "Hyde Park" of Slovenská sporiteľňa, Bratislava, October 16, 2013.
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Vlnový funkcionál vákua kvantovej
chromodynamiky: Približný tvar a jeho testy na
mriežke.
PDF file
(mainly in English, only parts in Slovak) for a seminar
in the Department of Theoretical Physics, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics, and Informatics, Comenius Univ., Bratislava, December 4, 2012.
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Načo je nám higgsón?
PDF file
(mainly in Slovak) for a seminar
in the Department of Physics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information, Slovak Technical Univ., Bratislava, April 13, 2012.
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Scientometria a hirschológia: dobrý sluha, ale zlý pán?
PDF file
(mainly in Slovak) for a seminar in the Institute of Physics, Bratislava, October 3, 2011.
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Výlet do femtosveta alebo Z čoho sa skladá hmota?
MS PowerPoint file[*]
(mainly in Slovak) for a lecture for participants of the introductory meeting of the Tournament of Young Physicists, Bratislava, October 27, 2010.
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Nedokonalá prázdnota: Uväznenie kvarkov a štruktúra vákua v kvantovej chromodynamike.
PDF file
(mainly in Slovak) for a colloquium in the Faculty of Nuclear Sciences
and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague,
October 6, 2010.
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Čo sa stane, keď
sa symetria skryje?
(Nobelova cena za fyziku 2008).
MS PowerPoint file[*]
(in Slovak) for seminars in the Department of Physics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information, Slovak Technical Univ., Bratislava, April 17, 2009, and in the Institute of Physics, Bratislava, April 29, 2009.
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Nedokonalá prázdnota alebo Nakúkanie do vákua kvantovej
chromodynamiky.
MS PowerPoint file[*]
(mainly in Slovak) for a (non-specialized) seminar in the Institute of Experimental Physics, Košice, February 4, 2009.
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Krátka prechádzka po ZOO elementárnych častíc.
MS PowerPoint file[*]
(mainly in Slovak and Czech) for an outreach lecture for high-school students during the Day of Open Doors of the Institute of Physics, Bratislava, November 25, 2008.
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Yang-Mills ground-state wavefunctional in 2+1 dimensions.
MS PowerPoint file
[*] or
PDF file
for a seminar in Graz Univ., May 7, 2008.
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Nedokonalá prázdnota alebo Nakúkanie do vákua kvantovej
chromodynamiky.
MS PowerPoint file[*]
(mainly in Slovak) for a (non-specialized) seminar in the Institute of Physics, Bratislava, February 6, 2008.
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Eigenmodes of covariant Laplacians in SU(2) lattice gauge theory:
confinement and localization.
MS PowerPoint file[*]
for a seminar in Graz Univ., October 19, 2005.
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Lokalizácia v kvantovej chromodynamike.
MS PowerPoint file[*] (in Slovak)
for a seminar in Institute of Physics, Bratislava, May 30, 2005.
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Centrálne vortexy a Gribovov horizont.
MS PowerPoint file[*] (in Slovak)
for a seminar in Institute of Physics, Bratislava, April 18, 2005.
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Uväznenie farby v QCD na mriežke - Centrálne vortexy a Gribovov horizont.
MS PowerPoint file[*] (in Slovak)
for a seminar in Charles Univ., Prague, March 9, 2005.
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Farebný svet kvarkov a gluónov.
MS PowerPoint file[*]
prepared for a popular talk (in Slovak, Klub fyzikov SFS, Feb. 23, 2005).
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Coulomb energy, remnant symmetry in Coulomb gauge, and phases of non-abelian gauge theories.
MS PowerPoint file[*]
for a seminar in Tuebingen Univ., November 18, 2003.
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Lattice evidence for the center vortex picture of confinement.
Extended set of
transparencies
for a seminar in NORDITA, Copenhagen, February 14, 2002.
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Center dominance and center vortices in lattice QCD.
Set of
transparencies
for three seminars in USA:
- Univ. of California in Los Angeles, CA
(May 1, 2001),
- Washington Univ. in Seattle, WA (May 8, 2001), and
- Louisiana State Univ. in Baton Rouge, LA (May 10, 2001).
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Center vortices and colour confinement in lattice QCD.
Extended set of
transparencies
for a seminar in the Department of Theoretical Physics, Univ. of Debrecen,
February 21, 2001.
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