Lattice Formulation of Two-Dimensional N=(2,2) SQCD with Exact Supersymmetry

TL;DR

This paper develops a lattice model for two-dimensional N=(2,2) supersymmetric QCD that preserves one supercharge exactly, incorporates Wilson terms to avoid species doubling, and correctly reproduces the U(1)_A anomaly.

Contribution

It introduces a lattice formulation of 2D N=(2,2) SQCD with exact supersymmetry and handles matter decoupling and anomaly matching.

Findings

Lattice model preserves one supercharge exactly.

Wilson terms effectively remove species doublers.

Anomaly calculations confirm correct matter decoupling.

Abstract

We construct a lattice model for two-dimensional N=(2,2) supersymmetric QCD (SQCD), with the matter multiplets belonging to the fundamental or anti-fundamental representation of the gauge group U(N) or SU(N). The construction is based on the topological field theory (twisted supercharge) formulation and exactly preserves one supercharge along the line of the papers [1]--[4] for pure supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories. In order to avoid the species doublers of the matter multiplets, we introduce the Wilson terms and the model is defined for the case of the number of the fundamental matters (n_{+}) equal to that of the anti-fundamental matters (n_{-}). If some of the matter multiplets decouple from the theory by sending the corresponding anti-holomorphic twisted masses to the infinity, we can analyze the general n_{+}\neq n_{-} case, although the lattice model is defined for n_{+} =n_{-}. By computing the anomaly of the U(1)_A R-symmetry in the lattice perturbation, we see that the decoupling is achieved and the anomaly for n_{+}\neq n_{-} is correctly obtained.