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The minimal bosonization of supersymmetry in terms of one bosonic degree of freedom is considered. A nontrivial relationship of the construction to the Witten supersymmetric quantum mechanics is illustrated with the help of the simplest…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Mikhail S. Plyushchay

The electronic bands are classified according to their topology. We compute the connection and curvature for the electronic bands and show that the physical properties are determined by topological invariants which are equivalent to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-25 D. Schmeltzer

Topological insulators in three dimensions are studied as a problem of supersymmetric quantum mechanics. The spin-orbit coupling is induced as a consequence of the supersymmetrization procedure and we show that it is equivalent to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-13 J. Gamboa , F. Mendez

In contrast to ordinary symmetries, supersymmetry interchanges bosons and fermions. Originally proposed as a symmetry of our universe, it still awaits experimental verification. Here we theoretically show that supersymmetry emerges…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-05-05 Tarun Grover , D. N. Sheng , Ashvin Vishwanath

We unravel a fundamental connection between supersymmetry and a wide class of two dimensional second-order topological insulators (SOTI). This particular supersymmetry is induced by applying a half-integer Aharonov-Bohm flux…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-13 Clara S. Weber , Mikhail Pletyukhov , Zhe Hou , Dante M. Kennes , Jelena Klinovaja , Daniel Loss , Herbert Schoeller

The discovery of topologically non-trivial electronic systems has opened a new age in condensed matter research. From topological insulators to topological superconductors and Weyl semimetals, it is now understood that some of the most…

Topological superconductors are appealing building blocks for robust and reliable quantum information processing. Most platforms for engineering topological superconductivity rely on a combination of superconductors, materials with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-06 Ignacio Sardinero , Rubén Seoane Souto , Pablo Burset

Combining strong electron correlations [1-4] and nontrivial electronic topology [5] holds great promise for discovery. So far, this regime has been rarely accessed and systematic studies are much needed to advance the field. Here we…

Supersymmetry (SUSY) of Hamiltonian dictates double degeneracy between a pair of superpartners (SPs) transformed by supercharge, except at zero energy where modes remain unpaired in many cases. Here we explore a SUSY of complete isospectrum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-19 Dawei Zhai , Zuzhang Lin , Wang Yao

We outline the basic ideas of the topological mechanisms of superconductivity. A gauged model of correlated electronic system where a topological fluid is formed as a result of a strong interaction is discussed.

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 P. B. Wiegmann

A novel algebraic topology approach to supersymmetry (SUSY) and symmetry breaking in quantum field and quantum gravity theories is presented with a view to developing a wide range of physical applications. These include: controlled nuclear…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-06-19 Ion C. Baianu , James F. Glazebrook , Ronald Brown

The development of supersymmetric (SUSY) quantum mechanics has shown that some of the insights based on the algebraic properties of ladder operators related to the quantum mechanical harmonic oscillator carry over to the study of more…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-04-22 Cameron L. Williams , Nikhil N. Pandya , Bernhard G. Bodmann , Donald J. Kouri

We compute the two-particle matrix element and Josephson tunneling amplitude in a two-dimensional model of topological superconductivity which captures the physics of the doped Mott insulator. The hydrodynamics of topological electronic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-30 A. G. Abanov , P. B. Wiegmann

Recently, superconductivity has been observed in twisted WSe$_2$ moir\'{e} structures (Xia et al., Nature 2024; Guo et al., Nature 2025). Its transition temperature is high, reaching a few percent of the Fermi temperature scale. Here, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-04-02 Fang Xie , Lei Chen , Shouvik Sur , Yuan Fang , Jennifer Cano , Qimiao Si

Light-matter interaction is naturally described by coupled bosonic and fermionic subsystems. This suggests that a certain Bose-Fermi duality is naturally present in the fundamental quantum mechanical description of photons interacting with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-27 Michael Tomka , Mikhail Pletyukhov , Vladimir Gritsev

Motivated by the duality of normalizable states and the presence of the quasi-parity quantum number q=+/-1 in PT symmetric (non-Hermitian) quantum mechanical potential models, the relation of PT symmetry and supersymmetry (SUSY) is studied.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Levai , M. Znojil

We apply the quantum-mechanics bootstrap to supersymmetric quantum mechanics (SUSY QM) and to its matrix relative, the Marinari-Parisi model, which is conjectured to describe the worldvolume of unstable $D0$ branes. Using positivity of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-05 Samuel Laliberte , Brian McPeak

This paper presents a connection between the topological properties of hardcore bosons and that of magnons in quantum spin magnets. We utilize the Haldane-like hardcore bosons on the honeycomb lattice as an example. We show that this system…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-07-07 S. A. Owerre

In supersymmetric extensions of the Standard Model, the observed particles come in fermion-boson pairs necessary for the realization of supersymmetry (SUSY). In spite of the expected abundance of super-partners for all the known particles,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-13 Pedro D. Alvarez , Lucas Delage , Mauricio Valenzuela , Jorge Zanelli

We consider bosonization of supersymmetry in the context of Wess-Zumino quantum mechanics. Our motivation for this investigation is the flexibility the bosonic fock space affords as any classical probability distribution can be realized on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Radhakrishnan Balu , S. James Gates