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Electric Dipole Moment of a BPS Monopole

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-11-26 v2

Abstract

Monopole ``superpartner'' solutions are constructed by acting with finite, broken supersymmetry transformations on a bosonic N=2 BPS monopole. The terms beyond first order in this construction represent the backreaction of the the fermionic zero-mode state on the other fields. Because of the quantum nature of the fermionic zero-modes, the superpartner solution is necessarily operator valued. We extract the electric dipole moment operator and show that it is proportional to the fermion zero-mode angular momentum operator with a gyroelectric ratio g=2. The magnetic quadrupole operator is shown to vanish identically on all states. We comment on the usefulness of the monopole superpartner solution for a study of the long-range spin dependent dynamics of BPS monopoles.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9812191,
  title  = {Electric Dipole Moment of a BPS Monopole},
  author = {David Kastor and Euy Soo Na},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9812191},
  year   = {2008}
}

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