In theoretical physics, the Wess–Zumino model has become the first known example of an interacting four-dimensional quantum field theory with supersymmetry. In 1974, Julius Wess and Bruno Zumino studied, using modern terminology, dynamics of a single chiral superfield (composed of a complex scalar and a spinor fermion) whose cubic superpotential leads to a renormalizable theory.
The Lagrangian of the free massless Wess–Zumino model in four-dimensional spacetime with flat metric is
with a scalar field, a pseudoscalar field and a Majorana spinor field. The action is invariant under the transformations generated by the superalgebra. The infinitesimal form of these transformations is: