Monopole condensation in two-flavour Adjoint QCD

Understand

In QCD with adjoint fermions (aQCD) the deconfining transition takes place at a lower temperature than the chiral transition.

• We study the two transitions by use of the Polyakov Loop, the monopole order parameter and the chiral condensate.
• The deconfining transition is first order, the chiral is a crossover.
• The order parameters for confinement are not affected by the chiral transition.