We review the theoretical developments and conceptual advances that stemmed from the
generalization of QCD to the limit of a large number of color charges, originally proposed by't …

The equilibrium thermodynamic properties of the SU (N) plasma are studied
nonperturbatively in the large-N limit, via high-precision lattice simulations at temperatures …

In this review, after a general introduction to the Effective String Theory (EST) description of
confinement in pure gauge theories, we discuss the behaviour of EST as the temperature is …

We calculate the energy spectrum of ac onfining flux tube that is closed around a spatial
torus, as a function of its length l. We do so for various SU (N) gauge theories in 3+ 1 …

A bstract In U (1) lattice gauge theory in three spacetime dimensions, the problem of
confinement can be studied analytically in a semi-classical approach, in terms of a gas of …

In this work we investigate the effect of an external magnetic field B on the shape of flux
tubes in QCD by means of lattice simulations, performed with N f= 2+ 1 flavors of stout …

A bstract Effective String Theory (EST) represents a powerful non-perturbative approach to
describe confinement in Yang-Mills theory that models the confining flux tube as a thin …

A bstract We study the squared width and the profile of flux tubes in compact U (1) lattice
gauge theory in three spacetime dimensions. The results obtained from numerical …

We study the flux tubes produced by static quark–antiquark, quark–quark and quark–adjoint
charges at finite temperature in pure gauge SU (3) lattice field theory. This is relevant both …

The color flux tube connecting a static quark-anti-quark pair in Yang-Mills theory supports
massless transverse fluctuations, which are the Goldstone bosons of spontaneously broken …