Dimer models, free fermions and super quantum mechanics (Q601685)

The paper is devoted to a statistical mechanical system, the dimer model on a torus, to a system of lattice quantum field theory, i.e., the massless free fermion. The dimer model is concerned with the statistical mechanics of close packed dimer arrangement on a bipartite graph. It is shown that the loop configurations obtained after a diagrammentic expansion of the fermion determinant can be interpreted as states in supersymmetric quantum mechanics (SQM) after employing categorification techniques. The fermion loop system is re-interpreted as SQM. The loops are interpreted as operators mapping from one perfect matching to another. The basics of quiver gauge theories and the correspondence to the dimer model is reviewed. The interpretation of the loop states in terms of the physics of \(D\)-branes probing a singular topic CY is given. The results of the paper summarized by giving a dictionary between the loop states, the fermion states, the gauge theory and the geometry.