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Emergent Supersymmetry on the Edges

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-11-22 v2 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

The WZW models describe the dynamics of the edge modes of Chern-Simons theories in three dimensions. We explore the WZW models which can be mapped to supersymmetric theories via the generalized Jordan-Wigner transformation. Some of such models have supersymmetric Ramond vacua, but the others break the supersymmetry spontaneously. We also make a comment on recent proposals that the Read-Rezayi states at filling fraction ν=1/2, 2/3\nu=1/2,~2/3 are able to support supersymmetry.

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@article{arxiv.2105.02148,
  title  = {Emergent Supersymmetry on the Edges},
  author = {Jin-Beom Bae and Sungjay Lee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.02148},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

47 pages. We added in the revised manuscript a few paragraphs clarifying the role of fermionization to show emergent supersymmetry of the chiral theory on the edges

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