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Setting Limits on Supersymmetry Using Simplified Models
Published on: November 15, 2013
Realization of Supersymmetry and Its Spontaneous Breaking in Quantum Hall Edges
Ken K W Ma1, Ruojun Wang1, Kun Yang1
1National High Magnetic Field Laboratory and Department of Physics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306, USA.
Abstract:
Supersymmetry (SUSY) relating bosons and fermions plays an important role in unifying different fundamental interactions in particle physics. Since no superpartners of elementary particles have been observed, SUSY, if present, must be broken at low-energy. This makes it important to understand how SUSY is realized and broken, and study their consequences. We show that an N=(1,0) SUSY, arguably the simplest type, can be realized at the edge of the Moore-Read quantum Hall state. Depending on the absence or presence of edge reconstruction, both SUSY-preserving and SUSY broken phases can be realized in the same system, allowing for their unified description. The significance of the gapless fermionic Goldstino mode in the SUSY broken phase is discussed.
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