Interpreting Supersymmetry

Chihiro Matsui

We show the XXX model has the N = 2 dynamical supersymmetry. Using the supercharges defined by the Jordan-Wigner fermions, it was found that the anti-commutation relation of the supercharges gives the Hamiltonian of the XXX model with magnetic field. In order to compare the length-change supercharges with the conventional ones, we interpreted their actions in the spinon basis. In the last part of this paper, we propose the application of the dynamical supersymmetry to the models with magnetic impurities through the Bethe-ansatz analysis.

Amine M. El Gradechi, Véronique Hussin, Luis-Miguel Nieto

Nevena Ilieva, Heide Narnhofer, Walter E Thirring

Tarun Grover, D. N. Sheng, Ashvin Vishwanath

In contrast to ordinary symmetries, supersymmetry interchanges bosons and fermions. Originally proposed as a symmetry of our universe, it still awaits experimental verification. Here we theoretically show that supersymmetry emerges naturally in topological superconductors, which are well-known condensed matter systems. Specifically, we argue that the quantum phase transitions at the boundary of topological superconductors in both two and three dimensions display supersymmetry when probed at long distances and times. Supersymmetry entails several experimental consequences for these systems, such as, exact relations between quantities measured in disparate experiments, and in some cases, exact knowledge of the universal critical exponents. The topological surface states themselves may be interpreted as arising from spontaneously broken supersymmetry, indicating a deep relation between topological phases and SUSY. We discuss prospects for experimental realization in films of superfluid He$_3$-B.

V. A. Andreev

Jan Behrends, Benjámin Béri

Supersymmetry is a powerful concept in quantum many-body physics. It helps to illuminate ground-state properties of complex quantum systems and gives relations between correlation functions. In this Letter, we show that the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model, in its simplest form of Majorana fermions with random four-body interactions, is supersymmetric. In contrast to existing explicitly supersymmetric extensions of the model, the supersymmetry we find requires no relations between couplings. The type of supersymmetry and the structure of the supercharges are entirely set by the number of interacting Majorana modes and are thus fundamentally linked to the model's Altland-Zirnbauer classification. The supersymmetry we uncover has a natural interpretation in terms of a one-dimensional topological phase supporting Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev boundary physics and has consequences away from the ground state, including in q-body dynamical correlation functions.