Super-Spin Chains for 6D SCFTs

Abstract

Nearly all 6D superconformal field theories (SCFTs) have a partial tensor branch description in terms of a generalized quiver gauge theory consisting of a long one-dimensional spine of quiver nodes with links given by conformal matter; a strongly coupled generalization of a bifundamental hypermultiplet. For theories obtained from M5-branes probing an ADE singularity, this was recently leveraged to extract a protected large R-charge subsector of operators, with operator mixing controlled at leading order in an inverse large R-charge expansion by an integrable spin $s$ Heisenberg spin chain, where $s$ is determined by the $\mathfrak{su}(2{)}_R$ R-symmetry representation of the conformal matter operator. In this work, we show that this same structure extends to the full superconformal algebra $\mathfrak{osp}(6,2|1)$. In particular, we determine the corresponding Bethe ansatz equations which govern this super-spin chain, as well as distinguished subsectors which close under operator mixing. Similar considerations extend to 6D little string theories (LSTs) and 4D $\mathcal{N}=2$ SCFTs with the same generalized quiver structures.

35 pages + appendices, 7 figures. v2: minor clarifications; published version

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