Finite temperature effective string corrections in (3+1)D SU(2) lattice gauge theory

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We study the effective string corrections to the inter-quark potential at finite temperature by simulating the SU(2) lattice gauge theory in four dimensions.

• We provide the first numerical evidence that the logarithmic correction to the potential, which was recently proposed to be a signature of the effective string at finite temperature, is universal also in (3+1)D gauge theory, thus extending previous results limited to the (2+1)D case.