No saturation of the quantum Bogomolnyi bound by two-dimensional N=1 supersymmetric solitons

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(97)00625-1zbMATH Open0925.81078arXivhep-th/9707163MaRDI QIDQ1374328FDOQ1374328

Authors: Anton Rebhan, Peter van Nieuwenhuizen 

Publication date: 2 December 1997

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We reanalyse the question whether the quantum Bogomolnyi bound is saturated in the two-dimensional supersymmetric kink and sine-Gordon models. Our starting point is the usual expression for the one-loop correction to the mass of a soliton in terms of sums over zero-point energies. To regulate these sums, most authors put the system in a box with suitable boundary conditions, and impose an ultraviolet cut-off. We distinguish between an energy cut-off and a mode number cut-off, and show that they lead to different results. We claim that only the mode cut-off yields correct results, and only if one considers exactly the same number of bosonic and fermionic modes in the total sum over bound-state and zero-point energies. To substantiate this claim, we show that in the sine-Gordon model only the mode cut-off yields a result for the quantum soliton mass that is consistent with the exact result for the spectrum as obtained by Dashen et al. from quantising the so-called breather solution. In the supersymmetric case, our conclusion is that contrary to previous claims the quantum Bogomolnyi bound is not saturated in any of the two-dimensional models considered.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9707163

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zbMATH Keywords

regulationboundary conditions2D supersymmetric sine Gordon modelsbosonic modesquantum soliton masssoliton quantisation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Model quantum field theories (81T10) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60)

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