Creation of Magnetic Monopoles in Classical Scattering

2016/07/25 by Tanmay Vachaspati · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Gauge theory #Magnetic monopole #Parity (physics) #Physics #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Quantum electrodynamics #Quantum mechanics #Scattering #Topological quantum number #Wave packet #hep-ph #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.117.181601

published as Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 181601 (2016) · 5 pages; 9 figures

arxiv created 2016/07/25 · openalex publication_date 2016/10/27 · arxiv updated 2016/11/02 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

We consider the creation of 't Hooft-Polyakov magnetic monopoles by scattering classical wave packets of gauge fields. An example with eight clearly separated magnetic poles created with parity violating helical initial conditions is shown. No clear separation of topological charge is observed with corresponding parity symmetric initial conditions.

Citations

• Electric-magnetic duality, monopole condensation, and confinement in N=2 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory
• Gauge theories and magnetic charge
• Magnetic monopoles in unified gauge theories

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