The Super-Higgs Mechanism in Fluids

Understand

Supersymmetry is spontaneously broken when the field theory stress-energy tensor has a non-zero vacuum expectation value.

• In local supersymmetric field theories the massless gravitino and goldstino combine via the super-Higgs mechanism to a massive gravitino.
• We study this mechanism in four-dimensional fluids, where the vacuum expectation value of the stress-energy tensor breaks spontaneously both supersymmetry and Lorentz symmetry.
• We consider both constant as well as space-time dependent ideal fluids.