Dyons with phase $\delta_{\theta}=n\theta$
Abstract
In a recent paper (Heras in Eur. Phys. J. Plus 138: 329, 2023), we have demonstrated that when a dyon encircles an infinitely long solenoid enclosing electric and magnetic fluxes, its wave function accumulates a quantum phase invariant under electromagnetic duality transformations. In this paper, we show that this phase, in conjunction with the Witten effect, gives rise to a topological phase proportional to the vacuum angle and thereby connected with CP violation. We show that this phase becomes quantised in a vacuum state and that the most general vacuum state associated with this quantisation identifies with an Abelian form of the -vacua. We discuss two hypothetical interference effects in the vacuum where the angle could manifest.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2404.11622,
title = {Dyons with phase $\delta_{\theta}=n\theta$},
author = {Ricardo Heras},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.11622},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
v2. A minor typo was corrected in the abstract. Published in The European Physical Journal Plus. See the related preceding paper, arXiv:1910.01117