Charges and electromagnetic radiation as topological excitations

DOI10.1155/2017/9340516MaRDI QIDQ1630307zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors M. Faber

Publication date 10 December 2018

Published in Advances in High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.03196

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Model quantum field theories (81T10) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10)

Abstract: 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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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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