Chains of topological oscillators with instantons and calculable topological observables in topological quantum mechanics

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2016.05.030zbMATH Open1349.81168arXiv1610.00943OpenAlexW2412517216MaRDI QIDQ341844FDOQ341844

Publication date: 17 November 2016

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

Abstract: We extend to a possibly infinite chain the conformally invariant mechanical system that was introduced earlier as a toy model for understanding the topological Yang-Mills theory. It gives a topological quantum model that has interesting and computable zero modes and topological invariants. It confirms the recent conjecture by several authors that supersymmetric quantum mechanics may provide useful tools for understanding robotic mechanical systems (Vitelli et al.) and condensed matter properties (Kane et al.), where trajectories of effective models are allowed or not by the conservation of topological indices. The absences of ground state and mass gaps are special features of such systems.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.00943

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of vector bundles and moduli spaces in mathematical physics (twistor theory, instantons, quantum field theory) (14D21) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60)

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