Generalized dyons and magnetic dipoles: The issue of angular momentum

Navarro-Lérida, Francisco and Radu, Eugen and Tchrakian, D. H. (2014) Generalized dyons and magnetic dipoles: The issue of angular momentum. Physical Review D, 90 (6). ISSN 1550-7998

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Official URL: http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.90.064023

Abstract

It is known that a non-Abelian magnetic monopole cannot rotate globally (although it may possess a nonzero angular momentum density). At the same time, the total angular momentum of a magnetic dipole equals the electric charge. In this work we question the generality of these results by considering a number of generalizations of the Georgi-Glashow model. We study two different types of finite energy, regular configurations: solutions with net magnetic charge and monopole-antimonopole pairs with zero net magnetic charge. These configurations are endowed with an electric charge and carry also a nonvanishing angular momentum density. However, we argue that the qualitative results found in the Georgi-Glashow model are generic and thus a magnetic monopole cannot spin as long as the matter fields feature the usual “monopole” asymptotic behaviour independently of the dynamics of the model. A study of the properties of the dyons and magnetic dipoles in some generalizations of the Georgi-Glashow model supplemented with higher order Skyrme-like terms in the gauge curvature and Higgs fields is given quantitatively.

Item Type: Article
Divisions: School of Theoretical Physics > Preprints
Date Deposited: 05 Oct 2017 19:31
Last Modified: 15 Dec 2022 08:50
URI: https://dair.dias.ie/id/eprint/324

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