Small circle expansion for adjoint QCD2 with periodic boundary conditions

Dempsey, Ross; Klebanov, Igor R.; Pufu, Silviu S.; Søgaard, Benjamin T.

doi:10.1007/JHEP11(2024)128

Small circle expansion for adjoint QCD₂ with periodic boundary conditions

Journal Article · Fri Nov 22 00:00:00 EST 2024 · Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2024)128· OSTI ID:3010824

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Princeton Univ., NJ (United States)
Princeton Univ., NJ (United States); Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ (United States)

We study 1 + 1-dimensional SU(N) gauge theory coupled to one adjoint multiplet of Majorana fermions on a small spatial circle of circumference L. Using periodic boundary conditions, we derive the effective action for the quantum mechanics of the holonomy and the fermion zero modes in perturbation theory up to order (gL)³. When the adjoint fermion mass-squared is tuned to g²N/(2π), the effective action is found to be an example of supersymmetric quantum mechanics with a nontrivial superpotential. We separate the states into the ℤN center symmetry sectors (universes) labeled by p = 0, . . . , N – 1 and show that in one of the sectors the supersymmetry is unbroken, while in the others it is broken spontaneously. These results give us new insights into the (1, 1) supersymmetry of adjoint QCD₂, which has previously been established using light-cone quantization. When the adjoint mass is set to zero, our effective Hamiltonian does not depend on the fermions at all, so that there are 2^N−1 degenerate sectors of the Hilbert space. This construction appears to provide an explicit realization of the extended symmetry of the massless model, where there are 2^2N−2 operators that commute with the Hamiltonian. We also generalize our results to other gauge groups G, for which supersymmetry is found at the adjoint mass-squared g²h^∨/(2π), where h^∨ is the dual Coxeter number of G.

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Research Organization:: Princeton Univ., NJ (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0007968

OSTI ID:: 3010824

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 3011149

Journal Information:: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online), Journal Name: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online) Journal Issue: 11 Vol. 2024; ISSN 1029-8479

Publisher:: Springer NatureCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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