Phases of dual superconductivity and confinement in softly broken N=2 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories
Jan, 2000
15 pages
Published in:
- Phys.Rev.D 62 (2000) 065008
e-Print:
- hep-th/0001184 [hep-th]
Report number:
- US-FT-26-99,
- FFUOV-99-13
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Abstract:
We study the electric flux tubes that undertake color confinement in N=2 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories softly broken down to N=1 by perturbing with the first two Casimir operators. The relevant Abelian Higgs model is not the standard one due to the presence of an off-diagonal coupling among different magnetic U(1) factors. We perform a preliminary study of this model at a qualitative level. BPS vortices are explicitely obtained for particular values of the soft breaking parameters. Generically however, even in the ultrastrong scaling limit, vortices are not critical but live in a "hybrid" type II phase. Also, ratios among string tensions are seen to follow no simple pattern. We examine the situation at the half Higgsed vacua and find evidence for solutions with the behaviour of superconducting strings. In some cases they are solutions to BPS equations.Note:
- 15 pages, 1 figure, revtex; v2: typos corrected, final version Report-no: US-FT/26-99 FFUOV-99/13
- gauge field theory: SU(N)
- supersymmetry: symmetry breaking
- supersymmetry: potential
- flux tube: electric
- model: superconductivity
- bound state
- gauge field theory: U(1)
- Higgs model: abelian
- effective Lagrangian
- scaling
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