Charge quantization from a number operator

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2015.01.023zbMATH Open1345.81059arXiv1603.04078OpenAlexW1981021174WikidataQ55938726 ScholiaQ55938726MaRDI QIDQ315901FDOQ315901

Cohl Furey

Publication date: 26 September 2016

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

Abstract: We explain how an unexpected algebraic structure, the division algebras, can be seen to underlie a generation of quarks and leptons. From this new vantage point, electrons and quarks are simply excitations from the neutrino, which formally plays the role of a vacuum state. Using the ladder operators which exist within the system, we build a number operator in the usual way. It turns out that this number operator, divided by 3, mirrors the behaviour of electric charge. As a result, we see that electric charge is quantized because number operators can only take on integer values. Finally, we show that a simple hermitian form, built from these ladder operators, results uniquely in the nine generators of $SU(3{)}_c$ and $U(1{)}_{em}$. This gives a direct route to the two unbroken gauge symmetries of the standard model.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.04078

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) General quantum mechanics and problems of quantization (81S99)

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