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Hidden symmetry and (super)conformal mechanics in a monopole background

High Energy Physics - Theory 2020-04-13 v4 Mathematical Physics math.MP Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems Quantum Physics

Abstract

We study classical and quantum hidden symmetries of a particle with electric charge ee in the background of a Dirac monopole of magnetic charge gg subjected to an additional central potential V(r)=U(r)+(eg)2/2mr2V(r)=U(r) +(eg)^2/2mr^{2} with U(r)=12mω2r2U(r)=\tfrac{1}{2}m\omega^2r^2, similar to that in the one-dimensional conformal mechanics model of de Alfaro, Fubini and Furlan (AFF). By means of a non-unitary conformal bridge transformation, we establish a relation of the quantum states and of all symmetries of the system with those of the system without harmonic trap, U(r)=0U(r)=0. Introducing spin degrees of freedom via a very special spin-orbit coupling, we construct the osp(2,2)\mathfrak{osp}(2,2) superconformal extension of the system with unbroken N=2\mathcal{N}=2 Poincar\'e supersymmetry and show that two different superconformal extensions of the one-dimensional AFF model with unbroken and spontaneously broken supersymmetry have a common origin. We also show a universal relationship between the dynamics of a Euclidean particle in an arbitrary central potential U(r)U(r) and the dynamics of a charged particle in a monopole background subjected to the potential V(r)V(r).

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@article{arxiv.2002.04341,
  title  = {Hidden symmetry and (super)conformal mechanics in a monopole background},
  author = {Luis Inzunza and Mikhail S. Plyushchay and Andreas Wipf},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.04341},
  year   = {2020}
}

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43 pages, 4 figures