Monopole, gluino and charge condensates in gauge theories with broken N=2 supersymmetry

TL;DR

This paper investigates chiral, monopole, and charge condensates in SU(2) gauge theories with broken N=2 supersymmetry, revealing deconfinement phenomena at special points using Seiberg-Witten methods.

Contribution

It provides a detailed calculation of various condensates in a broken N=2 supersymmetric gauge theory and interprets the vanishing of monopole and charge condensates at the Argyres-Douglas point as deconfinement.

Findings

Monopole and charge condensates vanish at the Argyres-Douglas point.

Deconfinement of electric and magnetic charges occurs at this critical point.

Results are consistent with the 'integrating in' procedure.

Abstract

We consider chiral condensates in SU(2) gauge theory with broken N=2 supersymmetry and one fundamental flavor in the matter sector. Matter and gaugino condensates are determined by integrating out the adjoint field. The only nonperturbative input is the Affleck-Dine-Seiberg one-instanton superpotential. The results are consistent with those obtained by the `integrating in' procedure. We then calculate monopole, dyon, and charge condensates using the Seiberg-Witten approach. The key observation is that the monopole and charge condensates vanish at the Argyres-Douglas point where the monopole and charge vacua collide. We interpret this phenomenon as a deconfinement of electric and magnetic charges at the Argyres-Douglas point.