't Hooft operator
English edit
Etymology edit
Introduced by Gerard 't Hooft in the 1978 paper On the phase transition towards permanent quark confinement.
Noun edit
't Hooft operator (plural 't Hooft operators)
- (physics) A dual version of the Wilson loop in which the electromagnetic potential A is replaced by its electromagnetic dual Amag, where the exterior derivative of A is equal to the Hodge dual of the exterior derivative of Amag.