  Recently it has been shown that infrared singularities of Landau gauge QCD
can confine static quarks via a linearly rising potential. We show that the
same mechanism can also provide a confining interaction between charged scalar
fields in the fundamental representation. This confirms that within this
scenario static confinement is a universal property of the gauge sector even
though it is formally represented in the functional equations of the matter
sector. The simplifications compared to the fermionic case make the scalar
system an ideal laboratory for a detailed analysis of the confinement mechanism
in numerical studies of the functional equations as well as in gauge-fixed
lattice simulations.
