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Authors personal copy Annals of Physics 325 (2010) 2–15 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Annals of Physics journal homepage: www.el /locate/aop Quantum phase transitions beyond the Landau–Ginzburg paradigm and supersymmetry Subir Sachdev *, Xi Yin Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: We make connections between studies in the condensed matter Received 6 August 2008 literature on quantum phase transitions in square lattice antiferro- Accepted 4 August 2009 magnets, and results in the particle theory literature on abelian Available online 11 August 2009 supersymmetric gauge theories in 2 + 1 dimensions. In particular, we point out that supersymmetric Uð1Þ gauge theories (with parti- Keywords: cle content similar, but not identical, to those of theories of doped Duality antiferromagnets) provide rigorous examples of quantum phase Supersymmetry Quantum phase transition transitions which do not obey the Landau–Ginzburg–Wilson para- Monopole digm (often referred to as transitions realizing ‘‘deconfined critical- Antiferromagnet ity”). We also make connections between supersymmetric mirror Valence bond solid symmetries and condensed matter particle–vortex dualities. Deconfinem