$\mathcal{N}=1$ $\mathcal{D}=3$ Lifshitz-Wess-Zumino model: A paradigm of reconciliation between Lifshitz-like operators and supersymmetry

TL;DR

This paper constructs a three-dimensional Lifshitz-like extension of the Wess-Zumino model with z=2, demonstrating how supersymmetry can be preserved while incorporating Lifshitz operators, and analyzing its quantum properties.

Contribution

It introduces a novel Lifshitz-like supersymmetric model that maintains supersymmetry and improves UV behavior, addressing previous inconsistencies in Lifshitz theories.

Findings

Supersymmetry remains unbroken at one-loop order.

U(1) symmetry undergoes spontaneous breaking above a critical point.

The model exhibits improved UV behavior compared to the relativistic Wess-Zumino model.

Abstract

By imposing the weighted renormalization condition and the (super)symmetry requirements, we construct a Lifshitz-like extension of the three-dimensional Wess-Zumino model, with dynamical critical exponent z=2. In this context, the auxiliary field F plays a key role by introducing the appropriate Lifshitz operator in the bosonic sector of the theory, avoiding so undesirable time-space mixing derivatives and inconsistencies concerning the critical z exponent, as reported in the literature. The consistency of the proposed model is verified by building explicitly the susy algebra through the Noether method in the canonical formalism. This component-field Lifshitz-Wess-Zumino model is in addition rephrased in the Lifshitz superspace, a natural modification of the conventional one. The one-loop effective potential is computed to study the possibility of symmetry breaking. It is found that supersymmetry remains intact at one-loop order, while the U(1) phase symmetry suffers a spontaneous breakdown above the critical value of the renormalization point. By renormalizing the one-loop effective potential within the cutoff regularization scheme, it is observed an improvement of the UV behavior of the theory compared with the relativistic Wess-Zumino model.