%0 Journal Article %T Lattice simulation of a center symmetric three-dimensional effective theory for SU(2) Yang-Mills %A Smith %A Dominik %J High Energy Physics - Phenomenology %D 2008 %I %R 10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2009.01.056 %X We perform simulations of an effective theory of SU(2) Wilson lines in three dimensions. Our action includes a kinetic term, the one-loop perturbative potential for the Wilson line, a non-perturbative "fuzzy-bag" contribution and spatial gauge fields. We determine the phase diagram of the theory and confirm that, at moderately weak coupling, the non-perturbative term leads to eigenvalue repulsion in a finite region above the deconfining phase transition. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/0810.1129