Euclidean lattice simulation for the dynamical supersymmetry breaking
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 super Yang-Mills theory with the gauge group , 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.
Cite
@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