Abstract:
We review recent progress in constructing and studying superextensions of the
Landau problem of a quantum particle on a plane in a uniform magnetic field
and also its Haldane $S^2$ generalization. We focus on the planar super
Landau models that are invariant under the inhomogeneous supergroup
$ISU(1\,|\,1)$, a contraction of the supergroup $SU(2\,|\,1)$, and are minimal
superextensions of the original Landau model. Their significant common
feature is the presence of a hidden dynamical worldline $\mathcal N=2$
supersymmetry, which exists at both the classical and quantum levels and is
revealed most naturally in passing to the new invariant inner products in the
space of quantum states in order to make the norms of all states positive.
For one of the planar models, the superplane Landau model, we present an
off-shell worldline superfield formulation in which the $\mathcal N=2$
supersymmetry becomes explicit.