Phase transition in a supersymmetric theory

Singh, Surjit ; Pandita, P. N. (1986) Phase transition in a supersymmetric theory Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 34 (6). pp. 1859-1862. ISSN 1550-7998

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Official URL: http://prd.aps.org/abstract/PRD/v34/i6/p1859_1

Related URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.34.1859

Abstract

We study the thermodynamics of a globally supersymmetric theory in the presence of a net background of "charge" associated with a continuous symmetry. We solve exactly a prototypical model involving two chiral superfields in the weak-coupling limit and demonstrate the existence of a second-order phase transition associated with the spontaneous breaking of this symmetry. This is done by showing that one of the scalar fields in the supermultiplet develops a vacuum expectation value below a critical temperature. We also find that this phase transition is in the same universality class as the usual Bose gas condensation.

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