Non-Abelian string junctions as confined monopoles
Non-Abelian string junctions as confined monopoles
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DOI:
10.1103/physrevd.70.045004
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发表时间:
2004-03
影响因子:
5
通讯作者:
M. Shifman;A. Yung;A. Yung
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作者:
M. Shifman;A. Yung;A. Yung
Various dynamical regimes associated with confined monopoles in the Higgs phase of $\mathcal{N}=2$ two-flavor QCD are studied. The microscopic model we deal with has the $\mathrm{SU}(2)\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}\mathrm{U}(1)$ gauge group, with a Fayet\char21{}Iliopoulos term of the U(1) factor, and large and (nearly) degenerate mass terms of the matter hypermultiplets. We present a complete quasiclassical treatment of the BPS sector of this model, including the full set of the first-order equations, derivations of all relevant zero modes, and derivation of an effective low-energy theory for the corresponding collective coordinates. The macroscopic description is provided by a ${\mathrm{CP}}^{1}$ model with or without twisted mass. The confined monopoles\char22{}string junctions of the microscopic theory\char22{}are mapped onto BPS kinks of the ${\mathrm{CP}}^{1}$ model. The string junction is $\frac{1}{4}$ BPS. Masses and other characteristics of the confined monopoles are matched with those of the ${\mathrm{CP}}^{1}$-model kinks. The matching demonstrates the occurrence of an anomaly in the monopole central charge in 4D Yang\char21{}Mills theory. We study what becomes of the confined monopole in the bona fide non-Abelian limit of degenerate mass terms where a global SU(2) symmetry is restored. The solution of the macroscopic model is known, e.g., from the mirror description of the ${\mathrm{CP}}^{1}$ model. The monopoles, aka ${\mathrm{CP}}^{1}$-model kinks, are stabilized by nonperturbative dynamics of the ${\mathrm{CP}}^{1}$ model. We explain an earlier rather puzzling observation of a correspondence between the BPS kink spectrum in the ${\mathrm{CP}}^{1}$ model and the Seiberg\char21{}Witten solution.