A possible mechanism for the spontaneous breaking of SUSY, based on the
presence of vacuum condensates, is reviewed. Such a mechanism could occur in
many physical examples, both at the fundamental and emergent level, and would
be formally analogous to spontaneous SUSY breaking at finite temperature in the
TFD formalism, in which case it can be applied as well. A possible experimental
setup for detecting such a breaking through measurement of the Anandan-Aharonov
invariants associated with vacuum condensates in an optical lattice model is
proposed.Comment: 6 pages, 2 figures, review article to appear in the special issue
"Supersymmetry, Supergravity, and Superstring Phenomenology" of Advances in
High Energy Physic
