Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (SIGMA)

SIGMA 7 (2011), 015, 14 pages      arXiv:1102.2288      https://doi.org/10.3842/SIGMA.2011.015
Contribution to the Proceedings of the Workshop “Supersymmetric Quantum Mechanics and Spectral Design”

Harmonic Superfields in N=4 Supersymmetric Quantum Mechanics

Evgeny A. Ivanov
Bogoliubov Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, JINR, 141980, Dubna, Moscow Region, Russia

Received December 20, 2010, in final form February 03, 2011; Published online February 11, 2011

Abstract
This is a brief survey of applications of the harmonic superspace methods to the models of N=4 supersymmetric quantum mechanics (SQM). The main focus is on a recent progress in constructing SQM models with couplings to the background non-Abelian gauge fields. Besides reviewing and systemizing the relevant results, we present some new examples and make clarifying comments.

Key words: supersymmetry; harmonic superspace; mechanics.

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