Small magnetic charges and monopoles in non-associative quantum mechanics
High Energy Physics - Theory
2018-11-21 v1 Mathematical Physics
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Abstract
Weak magnetic monopoles with a continuum of charges less than the minimum implied by Dirac's quantization condition may be possible in non-associative quantum mechanics. If a weakly magnetically charged proton in a hydrogen atom perturbs the standard energy spectrum only slightly, magnetic charges could have escaped detection. Testing this hypothesis requires entirely new methods to compute energy spectra in non-associative quantum mechanics. Such methods are presented here, and evaluated for upper bounds on the magnetic charge of elementary particles.
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@article{arxiv.1810.06540,
title = {Small magnetic charges and monopoles in non-associative quantum mechanics},
author = {Martin Bojowald and Suddhasattwa Brahma and Umut Buyukcam and Jonathan Guglielmon and Martijn van Kuppeveld},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.06540},
year = {2018}
}
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7 pages (includes supplementary material)