Thermal monopoles in lattice QCD

The properties of the thermal Abelian color-magnetic monopoles in the maximally Abelian gauge are studied for the first time in the deconfinement phase of the lattice SU(3) gluodynamics and lattice QCD. The simulated annealing algorithm combined with multiple gauge copies is applied for fixing the maximally Abelian gauge to avoid effects of Gribov copies. We compute the density, correlators, interaction parameters of the thermal Abelian monopoles.