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Semionic Supersymmetric Solitons

High Energy Physics - Theory 2011-03-28 v2 Superconductivity

Abstract

The Bogomolnyi vortex of the N=2 supersymmetric abelian-Higgs model in 2+1 dimensions is shown to be a ``semion'' of spin 1/4. Specifically, the effective superparticle action for one vortex is shown to describe, upon quantization, a parity self-dual centrally-charged `short' supermultiplet of ``relativistic helicities'' (-1/4,-1/4, 1/4,1/4).

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@article{arxiv.1008.2775,
  title  = {Semionic Supersymmetric Solitons},
  author = {Luca Mezincescu and Paul K. Townsend},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1008.2775},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

15 pp. Minor corrections and additional refs. in v2

R2 v1 2026-06-21T16:01:36.750Z