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

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.

17 pages, no figures. Talk presented at the Conference ``Quantization, Gauge Theory, and Strings'' dedicated to the memory of Professor Efim Fradkin, Moscow, Russia, 5-10 June 2000, to appear in the Proceedings