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N=1 SQCD and the Transverse Field Ising Model

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-03-19 v1

Abstract

We study the dimensions of non-chiral operators in the Veneziano limit of N=1 supersymmetric QCD in the conformal window. We show that when acting on gauge-invariant operators built out of scalars, the 1-loop dilatation operator is equivalent to the spin chain Hamiltonian of the 1D Ising model in a transverse magnetic field, which is a nontrivial integrable system that is exactly solvable at finite length. Solutions with periodic boundary conditions give the anomalous dimensions of flavor-singlet operators and solutions with fixed boundary conditions give the anomalous dimensions of operators whose ends contain open flavor indices.

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@article{arxiv.1104.1425,
  title  = {N=1 SQCD and the Transverse Field Ising Model},
  author = {David Poland and David Simmons-Duffin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1104.1425},
  year   = {2015}
}

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17 pages, 2 figures

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