Spin chains in N = 2 superconformal theories from the Z₂ quiver to superconformal QCD

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DOI10.1007/JHEP06(2012)107zbMATH Open1397.81361arXiv1006.0015OpenAlexW1492936418MaRDI QIDQ1795697FDOQ1795697

Abhijit Gadde, Leonardo Rastelli, Elli Pomoni

Publication date: 16 October 2018

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper we find preliminary evidence that N=2 superconformal QCD, the SU(N_c) SYM theory with N_f= 2 N_c fundamental hypermultiplets, might be integrable in the large N Veneziano limit. We evaluate the one-loop dilation operator in the scalar sector of the N=2 superconformal quiver with SU(N_c) X SU(N_{check c}) gauge group, for N_c = N_{check c}. Both gauge couplings g and check g are exactly marginal. This theory interpolates between the Z_2 orbifold of N=4 SYM, which corresponds to check g=g, and N=2 superconformal QCD, which is obtained for check g -> 0. The planar one-loop dilation operator takes the form of a nearest-neighbor spin-chain Hamiltonian. For superconformal QCD the spin chain is of novel form: besides the color-adjoint fields phi^a_{b}, which occupy individual sites of the chain, there are "dimers" Q^a_{i} �ar Q^i_{b} of flavor-contracted fundamental fields, which occupy two neighboring sites. We solve the two-body scattering problem of magnon excitations and study the spectrum of bound states, for general check g/g. The dimeric excitations of superconformal QCD are seen to arise smoothly for check g -> 0 as the limit of bound wavefunctions of the interpolating theory. Finally we check the Yang-Baxter equation for the two-magnon S-matrix. It holds as expected at the orbifold point check g = g. While violated for general check g eq g, it holds again in the limit check g -> 0, hinting at one-loop integrability of planar N=2 superconformal QCD.


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