Solitons in the Higgs phase: the moduli matrix approach

M Eto, Y Isozumi, M Nitta, K Ohashi… - Journal of Physics A …, 2006 - iopscience.iop.org
We review our recent work on solitons in the Higgs phase. We use U (NC) gauge theory with
NF Higgs scalar fields in the fundamental representation, which can be extended to possess …

Non-Abelian walls in supersymmetric gauge theories

Y Isozumi, M Nitta, K Ohashi, N Sakai - Physical Review D—Particles, Fields …, 2004 - APS
The Bogomol'nyi-Prasad-Sommerfield (BPS) multiwall solutions are constructed in
supersymmetric U (NC) gauge theories in five dimensions with NF (> NC) hypermultiplets in …

Supersymmetric nonlinear sigma models as gauge theories

K Higashijima, M Nitta - Progress of Theoretical Physics, 2000 - academic.oup.com
Supersymmetric nonlinear sigma models are obtained from linear sigma models by
imposing supersymmetric constraints. if we introduce auxiliary chiral and vector superfields …

A supersymmetric Skyrme model

SB Gudnason, M Nitta, S Sasaki - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2016 - Springer
A bstract Construction of a supersymmetric extension of the Skyrme term was a long-
standing problem because of the auxiliary field problem; that is, the auxiliary field may …

D-brane construction for non-Abelian walls

M Eto, Y Isozumi, M Nitta, K Ohashi, K Ohta… - Physical Review D …, 2005 - APS
Supersymmetric U (NC) gauge theory with NF massive hypermultiplets in the fundamental
representation is given by the brane configuration made of NC fractional D p-branes stuck at …

Webs of domain walls in supersymmetric gauge theories

M Eto, Y Isozumi, M Nitta, K Ohashi, N Sakai - Physical Review D—Particles …, 2005 - APS
Webs of domain walls are constructed as 1/4 Bogomol'nyi-Prasad-Sommerfield (BPS) states
in d= 4, N= 2 supersymmetric U (NC) gauge theories with NF hypermultiplets in the …

Higher derivative corrections to manifestly supersymmetric nonlinear realizations

M Nitta, S Sasaki - Physical Review D, 2014 - APS
When global symmetries are spontaneously broken in supersymmetric vacua, there appear
quasi-Nambu-Goldstone (NG) fermions as superpartners of NG bosons. In addition to these …

Domain walls with non-Abelian clouds

M Eto, T Fujimori, M Nitta, K Ohashi, N Sakai - Physical Review D—Particles …, 2008 - APS
Domain walls in U (N) gauge theories, coupled to Higgs scalar fields with degenerate
masses, are shown to possess normalizable non-Abelian Nambu-Goldstone (NG) modes …

Quasi-Nambu-Goldstone modes in nonrelativistic systems

M Nitta, DA Takahashi - Physical Review D, 2015 - APS
When a continuous symmetry is spontaneously broken in nonrelativistic systems, there
appear either type-I or type-II Nambu-Goldstone modes (NGMs) with linear or quadratic …

Non-Abelian vortices in SO (N) and USp (N) gauge theories

M Eto, T Fujimori, SB Gudnason… - Journal of High …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
Non-Abelian BPS vortices in SO (N)× U (1) and USp (2N)× U (1) gauge theories are
constructed in maximally color-flavor locked vacua. We study in detail their moduli and …