Missing final state puzzle in the monopole-fermion scattering

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2022.137271zbMATH Open1498.81119arXiv2103.13639OpenAlexW3138791806MaRDI QIDQ2157276FDOQ2157276

Authors: Ryuichiro Kitano, Ryutaro Matsudo 

Publication date: 27 July 2022

Published in: Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: It has been known that when a charged fermion scatters off a monopole, the fermion in the $s$-wave component must flip its chirality, i.e., fermion number violation must happen. This fact has led to a puzzle; if there are two or more flavors of massless fermions, any superposition of the fermion states cannot be the final state of the $s$-wave scattering as it is forbidden by conservation of the electric and flavor charges. The unitary evolution of the state vector, on the other hand, requires some interpretation of the final states. We solve the puzzle by finding new particle excitations in the monopole background, where multi-fermion operators exhibit condensation. The particles are described as excitations of closed-string configurations of the condensates.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.13639

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hyperbolic conservation laws (35L65) (2)-body potential quantum scattering theory (81U05) Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26) Fermionic systems in quantum theory (81V74) Mono-, di- and multipole moments (EM and other), gyromagnetic relations (81V60)

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• Majorana fermions, exact mapping between quantum impurity fixed points with four bulk fermion species, and solution of the ``Unitarity Puzzle

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