Dimension two condensates and the Polyakov loop above the deconfinement phase transition Megías Fernández, Eugenio Ruiz Arriola, Enrique Salcedo Moreno, Lorenzo Luis Thermal Field Theory Nonperturbative Effects QCD Lattice QCD We show that recent available lattice data for the renormalized Polyakov loop above the deconfinement phase transition exhibit unequivocal inverse power temperature corrections driven by a dimension 2 gluon condensate. This simple ansatz provides a good overall description of the data throughout the deconfinement phase until near the critical temperature with just two parameters. One of the parameters is consistent with perturbation theory while a second, non perturbative, parameter provides a numerical value of the condensate which is close to existing zero and finite temperature determinations. 2025-01-23T08:56:36Z 2025-01-23T08:56:36Z 2006-01-13 journal article Megías, E., Ruiz Arriola, E., & Salcedo, L.L.. (2006). Dimension two condensates and the Polyakov loop above the deconfinement phase transition. Journal of High Energy Physics, 01 (2006) 073. https://hdl.handle.net/10481/100081 10.1088/1126-6708/2006/01/073 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ open access Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional IOP Science