Hidden symmetry and (super)conformal mechanics in a monopole background
Abstract
We study classical and quantum hidden symmetries of a particle with electric charge in the background of a Dirac monopole of magnetic charge subjected to an additional central potential with , 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, . Introducing spin degrees of freedom via a very special spin-orbit coupling, we construct the superconformal extension of the system with unbroken 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 and the dynamics of a charged particle in a monopole background subjected to the potential .
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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