A Model without Higgs Potential for Quantum Simulation of Radiative Mass-Enhancement in SUSY Breaking

TL;DR

This paper proposes a simple quantum simulation model for mass enhancement in supersymmetric quantum mechanics, demonstrating spontaneous SUSY breaking without using a Higgs potential, using qubits as substitutes.

Contribution

It introduces a minimalistic quantum simulation model that captures mass enhancement and SUSY breaking without Higgs potential, using qubits to emulate the double-well potential.

Findings

Demonstrates mass enhancement in fermionic and bosonic states

Shows spontaneous SUSY breaking without Higgs potential

Uses qubits to simulate double-well potential effects

Abstract

We study a quantum-simulation model of a mass enhancement in the fermionic states, as well as in the bosonic ones, of the supersymmetric quantum mechanics. The bosonic and fermionic states are graded by a qubit. This model is so simple that it may be implemented as a quantum simulation of the mass enhancement taking place when supersymmetry (SUSY) is spontaneously broken. Here, our quantum simulation means the realization of the target quantum phenomenon with some quantum-information devices as a physical reality. The model describes how the quasi-particle consisting of the annihilation and creation of 1-mode scalar bosons eats the spin effect given by the X-gate, and how it acquires the mass enhancement in the fermionic states in the spontaneous SUSY breaking. Our model's interaction does not have any Higgs potential. Instead, the qubit acts as a substitute for the Higgs potential by the 2-level-system approximation of the double-well potential, and then, the spontaneous SUSY breaking takes place and the mass is enhanced.