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Superparticle models with $OSp(N|2)$ supersymmetry group are studied. We first consider the $N=4$ case and construct the models with $\kappa$-symmetry on the coset spaces of the $OSp(4|2)$ supergroup. In addition, within the canonical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-03-27 Dmitry Chernyavsky

These notes are an elementary introduction to supersymmetric quantum mechanics for students of mathematics. We start from the very basic concepts of quantum mechanics and proceed to construct a realization of Heisenberg's superalgebra as a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-05-07 José A. Vallejo

We study the superconformal index of the N=4 super-Yang-Milles theory on S^3 X S^1 with the half BPS superconformal surface operator (defect) inserted at the great circle of S^3. The half BPS superconformal surface operators preserve the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 Yu Nakayama

Mixed anomalies, higher form symmetries, two-group symmetries and non-invertible symmetries have proved to be useful in providing non-trivial constraints on the dynamics of quantum field theories. We study mixed anomalies involving discrete…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-08 Noppadol Mekareeya , Matteo Sacchi

We calculate the superconformal Witten index for the Chern-Simons-matter theory which was proposed to describe multiple M2-branes on $C^2 X C^2/Z_k$. We consider a variant of this model, which exhibits explicit N=3 supersymmetry and has the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 Seok Kim , Jaemo Park

Type B superconformal quantum mechanical sigma models are of physical interest as they arise in the description of D-brane bound states forming an AdS$_2$ throat. In this work we discuss the applicability of localization methods to compute…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-29 Joris Raeymaekers , Paolo Rossi , Canberk Sanli

In this paper we continue the study of the superconformal index of four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$ theories of class $\mathcal{S}$ in the presence of surface defects. Our main result is the construction of an algebra of difference…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-10-16 Mathew Bullimore , Martin Fluder , Lotte Hollands , Paul Richmond

In theories with $N=2$ supersymmetry on $R^{3,1}$, BPS bound states can decay across walls of marginal stability in the space of Coulomb branch parameters, leading to discontinuities in the BPS indices $\Omega(\gamma,u)$. We consider a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-04-01 Sergei Alexandrov , Gregory W. Moore , Andrew Neitzke , Boris Pioline

The general features of the degeneracy structure of ($p=2$) parasupersymmetric quantum mechanics are employed to yield a classification scheme for the form of the parasupersymmetric Hamiltonians. The method is applied to parasupersymmetric…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-12-17 Ali Mostafazadeh

We construct quasi-solvable quantum mechanical matrix models by employing two different methods, the one is universal enveloping algebra of Lie superalgebra and the other is N-fold supersymmetry. For the former we examine the q(2) and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-09-22 Toshiaki Tanaka

In this paper, we study topological quantum mechanical models on symplectic orbifolds. The correlation map gives an explicit orbifold version of quantum HKR map. The exact semi-classical approximation in this model leads to a geometric and…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2025-04-09 Si Li , Peng Yang

We consider families of theories with large N=4 superconformal symmetry. We define an index generalizing the elliptic genus of theories with N=2 symmetry. In contrast to the N=2 case, the new index constrains part of the non-BPS spectrum.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Sergei Gukov , Emil Martinec , Gregory Moore , Andrew Strominger

We consider a one-dimensional model of localization based on the Witten Hamiltonian of supersymmetric quantum mechanics. The low energy spectral properties are reviewed and compared with those of other models with off-diagonal disorder.…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 Alain Comtet , Christophe Texier

We show how a recently proposed supersymmetric quantum mechanics model leads to non-trivial results/conjectures on the combinatorics of binary necklaces and linear-feedback shift-registers. Pauli's exclusion principle plays a crucial role:…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 E. Onofri , G. Veneziano , J. Wosiek

We give a geometric interpretation for superconformal quantum mechanics defined on a hyper-Kahler cone which has an equivariant symplectic resolution. BPS states are identified with certain twisted Dolbeault cohomology classes on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-10 Nick Dorey , Boan Zhao

A topological quantum number, the Witten index, characterizes supersymmetric models by probing for zero energy modes and the possibility of supersymmetry breaking. We propose an averaging method to infer the Witten index in quantum analog…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-22 Hrushikesh Sable , Nathan M. Myers , Vito W. Scarola

A gauge invariant mathematical formalism based on deformation quantization is outlined to model an $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric system of a spin $1/2$ charged particle placed in a nocommutative plane under the influence of a vertical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-07-02 Md. Rafsanjany Jim , S. Hasibul Hassan Chowdhury

We present a new multiparticle model of $\mathcal{N}{=}\,8$ mechanics with superconformal $F(4)$ symmetry. The system is constructed in terms of two matrix $\mathcal{N}{=}\,4$ multiplets. One of them is a bosonic matrix $({\bf 1, 4, 3})$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-26 Sergey Fedoruk , Evgeny Ivanov

We discuss supersymmetric quantum mechanical models with periodic potentials. The important new feature is that it is possible for both isospectral potentials to support zero modes, in contrast to the standard nonperiodic case where either…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-25 Gerald Dunne , Joshua Feinberg

N-particle quantum mechanics described by a sigma model with an N-dimensional target space with torsion is considered. It is shown that an SL(2,R) conformal symmetry exists if and only if the geometry admits a homothetic Killing vector…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-17 Jeremy Michelson , Andrew Strominger