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Dyons with phase $\delta_{\theta}=n\theta$

Quantum Physics 2024-06-18 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

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 θ\theta and thereby connected with CP violation. We show that this phase becomes quantised in a vacuum state δθ=nθ\delta_{\theta}=n\theta and that the most general vacuum state associated with this quantisation identifies with an Abelian form of the θ\theta-vacua. We discuss two hypothetical interference effects in the vacuum where the angle θ\theta 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

R2 v1 2026-06-28T15:57:41.551Z