Moving and Removing Dirac's String
Jul, 19767 pages
Published in:
- Phys.Rev.D 15 (1977) 1175
Report number:
- MPI-PAE-PTH-18-76
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Abstract: (APS)
It is shown that in Dirac's formulation of the quantum-mechanical interaction of a magnetic monopole and an electric charge the singular string he attached to the monopole can be moved arbitrarily by an acceptable gauge transformation, and hence is not physically observable, and that this formulation of the theory is equivalent to the recent formulation of Wu and Yang in which the use of potentials with strings is avoided.- POSTULATED PARTICLE: MAGNETIC MONOPOLE
- MODEL: STRING
- QUANTUM MECHANICS: NONRELATIVISTIC
- TRANSFORMATION: GAUGE
- ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD
- SCATTERING: CHARGED PARTICLE MAGNETIC MONOPOLE
- POTENTIAL: VECTOR
- QUANTUM MECHANICS
- MODEL: DIRAC
- MODEL: WU-YANG
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