't Hooft operator

English

Etymology

Introduced by Gerard 't Hooft in the 1978 paper On the phase transition towards permanent quark confinement.

Noun

't Hooft operator (plural 't Hooft operators)

1. (physics) A dual version of the Wilson loop in which the electromagnetic potential A is replaced by its electromagnetic dual A^mag, where the exterior derivative of A is equal to the Hodge dual of the exterior derivative of A^mag.