Collective modes and screening in an electric-magnetic dual plasma
Abstract
We study the linear response of an effective relativistic two-fluid medium carrying separately conserved electric and magnetic charge currents. The model is defined by the duality-symmetric Maxwell equations with electric and magnetic sources, together with Lorentz-force dynamics for two fluids with independent inertia and possible Carter-type entrainment. The magnetic component is treated as an effective charge-carrying constituent, so the analysis uses only the closed two-fluid equations. Around a homogeneous, neutral, and unmagnetized background, the transverse electromagnetic response contains two stable branches whose cutoffs are set by the electric and magnetic plasma frequencies and are exchanged by electric--magnetic duality. In the longitudinal sector, entrainment mixes the electric and magnetic density oscillations, turns their crossing into an avoided crossing, and gives the stability condition equivalent to positive definiteness of the two-fluid momentum matrix. Resolving the magnetic component into monopole and antimonopole species gives a neutral branch selected by magnetic charge conjugation . In this branch the net magnetic current vanishes, so the long-range monopole field is absent, while the total magnetic density can still produce screened collective response. The resulting picture is that magnetic charge can be statically hidden but dynamically visible. A robust observable signature is the density scaling which may survive dissipative broadening even when sharp ideal-plasma poles are not resolved. We briefly comment on possible dyonic interpretations of magnetically neutral composites, but the linear-response results do not rely on that interpretation.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2606.27404,
title = {Collective modes and screening in an electric-magnetic dual plasma},
author = {Hyeong-Chan Kim},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.27404},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
13 pages, 4 figures