Domain Walls and Flux Tubes in N=2 SQCD: D-Brane Prototypes
arXiv:hep-th/0212293 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.67.125007
Abstract
This paper could have been entitled "D branes and strings from flesh and blood." We study field theoretic prototypes of D branes/strings. To this end we consider (2+1)-dimensional domain walls in (3+1)-dimensional N=2 SQCD with SU(2) gauge group and two quark flavors in the fundamental representation. This theory is perturbed by a small mass term of the adjoint matter which, in the leading order in the mass parameter, does not break N=2 supersymmetry, and reduces to a (generalized) Fayet-Iliopoulos term in the effective low-energy N=2 SQED. We find 1/2 BPS-saturated domain wall solution interpolating between two quark vacua at weak coupling, and show that this domain wall localizes a U(1) gauge field. To make contact with the brane/string picture we consider the Abrikosov-Nielsen-Olesen magnetic flux tube in one of two quark vacua and demonstrate that it can end on the domain wall. We find an explicit 1/4 BPS-saturated solution for the wall/flux tube junction. We verify that the end point of the flux tube on the wall plays the role of an electric charge in the dual (2+1)-dimensional SQED living on the wall. Flow to N=1 theory is discussed. Our results lead us to a conjecture regarding the notorious "missing wall" in the solution of Kaplunovsky et al.
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