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Euclidean lattice simulation for the dynamical supersymmetry breaking

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2008-11-26 v3 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

The global supersymmetry is spontaneously broken if and only if the ground-state energy is strictly positive. We propose to use this fact to observe the spontaneous supersymmetry breaking in euclidean lattice simulations. For lattice formulations that possess a manifest fermionic symmetry, there exists a natural choice of a hamiltonian operator that is consistent with a topological property of the Witten index. We confirm validity of our idea in models of the supersymmetric quantum mechanics. We then examine a possibility of a dynamical supersymmetry breaking in the two-dimensional N=(2,2)\mathcal{N}=(2,2) super Yang-Mills theory with the gauge group \SU(2)\SU(2), for which the Witten index is unknown. Differently from a recent conjectural claim, our numerical result tempts us to conclude that supersymmetry is not spontaneously broken in this system.

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@article{arxiv.0711.2099,
  title  = {Euclidean lattice simulation for the dynamical supersymmetry breaking},
  author = {Issaku Kanamori and Fumihiko Sugino and Hiroshi Suzuki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0711.2099},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

5 pages, 4 figures, the final version to appear in Phys. Rev. D

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