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Modern physics is largely devoted to study conservation laws, such as charge, energy, linear momentum or angular momentum, because they give us information about the symmetries of our universe. Here, we propose to add the relationship…

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Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-05-01 William Barham , Philip J. Morrison , Eric Sonnendrücker

We investigate high and low energy implications of a gauge dual description of the Standard Model. The high energy electric theory features gauge dynamics involving only fermionic matter fields, while the low energy magnetic description…

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The purpose of this course is to provide an introduction to Electromagnetic Theory. The foundations of electrodynamics starting from the nature of electrical force up to the level of Maxwell equations solutions are presented. It starts with…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2021-09-03 Irina Shreyber

These lectures give an introduction to duality in Quantum Field Theory. We discuss the phases of gauge theories and the implications of the electric-magnetic duality transformation to describe the mechanism of confinement. We review the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Luis Alvarez-Gaume , Frederic Zamora

The classical theory of electrodynamics cannot explain the existence and structure of electric and magnetic dipoles, yet it incorporates such dipoles into its fundamental equations, simply by postulating their existence and properties, just…

Optics · Physics 2015-03-10 Masud Mansuripur

We consider Maxwell theory on a non-spin manifold. Depending on the choice of statistics for line operators, there are three non-anomalous theories and one anomalous theory with different symmetry fractionalizations. We establish the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-05 Naoto Kan , Kohki Kawabata , Hiroki Wada

The symmetry studies of Maxwell equations gave new insight on the nature of electromagnetic (EM) field. Tey are reviewed in the work presented. It is drawing the attention on the following aspects. EM-field has in general case quaternion…

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High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 Jan Ambjorn

We look at the foundations of electromagnetism in this chapter of the "eletromagnetism" book. For doing this, after some review (constraints on photon mass etc.), we use two approaches. The first one is to formulate a Parametrized…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-03-26 Wei-Tou Ni

Electromagnetic duality of Maxwell theory is a symmetry of equations but not of the action. The usual application of the `complexity=action' conjecture would thus loose this duality. It was recently proposed in arxiv:1901.00014 that the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-02 Hai-Shan Liu , H. Lu

An expression is presented for the relativistic equations of motion, including field gradients, of a particle and its spin with electric and magnetic dipole moments aligned along the spin axis. An electromagnetic duality transformation is…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2015-07-17 Eric M. Metodiev

We consider the ($3{+}1$)-dimensional Maxwell theory in the situation where going around nontrivial paths in the spacetime involves the action of the duality transformation exchanging the electric field and the magnetic field, as well as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-18 Chang-Tse Hsieh , Yuji Tachikawa , Kazuya Yonekura

The magnetic dipole (M1) and electric quadupole (E2) responses of two-dimensional quantum dots with an elliptic shape are theoretically investigated as a function of the dot deformation and applied static magnetic field. Neglecting the…

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This is a general introduction to duality in field theories. The existence and breaking of global symmetries is used as a guideline to systematically prove duality between different field theories. Systems discussed include abelian and…

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We propose a method for constructing pairs of nonsupersymmetric gauge theories related by S-duality. Starting from a known S-duality of supersymmetric theories realized on the worldvolume of D3 branes in type IIB string theory, a new…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-01-22 Anson Hook , Gonzalo Torroba

We elaborate on the duality-symmetric nonlinear electrodynamics in a new formulation with auxiliary tensor fields. The Maxwell field strength appears only in bilinear terms of the corresponding generic Lagrangian, while the self-interaction…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 E. A. Ivanov , B. M. Zupnik

The possibility that QED and recently developed non-Hermitian, or magnetic, versions of QED are equivalent is considered. Under this duality the Hamiltonians and anomalous axial currents of the two theories are identified. A consequence of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-10 Chris Ford

We provide an explicit construction of a manifestly duality invariant, interacting deformation of Maxwell theory in four dimensions in terms of mutually local, but interacting 1- and 3-forms. Interestingly, our theory is formulated directly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-12 Carlo Alberto Cremonini , Erik Hundeshagen , Ivo Sachs