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Title: Dyons with phase $δ_θ=nθ$

Authors: Ricardo Heras
Abstract: In a recent paper (Heras in $\href{this https URL}{{\rm Eur. Phys. J. Plus\, 138: 329, 2023}}$), 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 $\theta$ and thereby connected with CP violation. We show that this phase becomes quantised in a vacuum state $\delta_{\theta}=n\theta$ and that the most general vacuum state associated with this quantisation identifies with an Abelian form of the $\theta$-vacua. We discuss two hypothetical interference effects in the vacuum where the angle $\theta$ could manifest.
Comments: Published in The European Physical Journal Plus. See the related preceding paper, arXiv:1910.01117
Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
Journal reference: Eur. Phys. J. Plus 138, 991 (2023)
DOI: 10.1140/epjp/s13360-023-04629-3
Cite as: arXiv:2404.11622 [quant-ph]
  (or arXiv:2404.11622v1 [quant-ph] for this version)

Submission history

From: Ricardo Heras [view email]
[v1] Mon, 8 Apr 2024 22:17:22 GMT (10kb)

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