Charges and electromagnetic radiation as topological excitations (Q1630307)
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6991053
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Charges and electromagnetic radiation as topological excitations (English)
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10 December 2018
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Summary: We discuss a model with stable topological solitons in Minkowski space with only three degrees of freedom, the rotational angles of a spatial Dreibein. This model has four types of solitons differing in two topological quantum numbers which we identify with electric charge and spin. The vacuum has a two-dimensional degeneracy leading to two types of massless excitations, characterised by a topological quantum number which could have a physical equivalent in the photon number.
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