Configurations of pure SU(2) gauge field theory on the lattice are transformed to Landau gauge. After Fourier transformation, large momentum amplitudes are suppressed by a variable amount, and the configurations are transformed back to x-space. Spectacular peaks in electric and magnetic field strengths are found, which share many properties with either almost pointlike instantons in regular gauge or with extended anti-instantons in singular gauge. Environments around those peaks are visualized with respect to the action, to the topological charge density, to the gauge fields and to electric and magnetic field strengths. The density of the peaks is of order 1fm −4 , and it scales according to the string tension under a variation of the coupling constant. The evolution of the peaks under the amount of Fourier filtering is visually compared to the evolution under cooling, and the gauge dependence of the peaks is discussed. Advantages and shortcomings of this method are discussed, with emphasis on possible strong distortions of the action and the topological charge density, which become gauge dependent. Finally, I compare the character of the SU(2)-configurations to those of non-compact abelian theory.
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