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Has it been yet determined if a gluon flux tube can break solely due to a color charge imbalance within a nucleon, so the tube is pushed out regardless of the force from a neighboring nucleon? If so, can a neighboring nucleon pull a flux tube apart regardless of the color charges in the gluon's own nucleon? Or are both forces acting in a push/pull on the tube required? Or it's not really known at this time? I suspect the latter, because I can't find the answer anywhere.