Vortices on the Higgs Branch of the Seiberg-Witten Theory

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1999-06-30

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9906243v1

Nucl.Phys.B562:191-209,1999

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

LATEX file, 27 pages, no figures

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0550-3213(99)00529-5

We study the mechanism of confinement via formation of Abrikosov-Nielsen-Olesen vortices on the Higgs branch of N=2 supersymmetric SU(2) gauge theory with massive fundamental matter. Higgs branch represents a limiting case of superconductor of type I with vanishing Higgs mass. We show that in this limit vortices still exist although they become logarithmically "thick". Because of this the confining potential is not linear any longer. It behaves as $L/\log L$ with a distance $L$ between confining heavy charges (monopoles). This new confining regime can occur only in supersymmetric theories. We also address the problem of quantum stability of vortices. To this end we develop string representation for a vortex and use it to argue that vortices remain stable.

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