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Setting Limits on Supersymmetry Using Simplified Models
Published on: November 15, 2013
Nonsupersymmetric Dualities from Mirror Symmetry
Shamit Kachru1, Michael Mulligan1,2, Gonzalo Torroba3
1Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA.
Abstract:
We study supersymmetry breaking perturbations of the simplest dual pair of (2+1)-dimensional N=2 supersymmetric field theories-the free chiral multiplet and N=2 super QED with a single flavor. We find dual descriptions of a phase diagram containing four distinct massive phases. The equivalence of the intervening critical theories gives rise to several nonsupersymmetric avatars of mirror symmetry: we find dualities relating scalar QED to a free fermion and Wilson-Fisher theories to both scalar and fermionic QED. Thus, mirror symmetry can be viewed as the multicritical parent duality from which these nonsupersymmetric dualities directly descend.
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