Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-15-1994
Publication Title
Physical Review D - Particles and Fields
Department
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Abstract
The method of quantization of magnetic monopoles based on the order-disorder duality existing between the monopole operator and the Lagrangian fields is applied to the description of the quantum magnetic monopoles of't Hooft and Polyakov in the SO(3) Georgi-Glashow model. The commutator of the monopole operator with the magnetic charge is computed explicitly, indicating that indeed the quantum monopole carries 4πg units of magnetic charge. An explicit expression for the asymptotic behavior of the monopole correlation function is derived. From this, the mass of the quantum monopole is obtained. The tree-level result for the quantum monopole mass is shown to satisfy the Bogomol'nyi bound (Mmon≥4πMg2) and to be within the range of values found for the energy of the classical monopole solution.
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevD.49.1093
Dartmouth Digital Commons Citation
Marino, E. C. and Ramos, Rudnei O., "Mass Spectrum and Correlation Functions of Non-Abelian Quantum Magnetic Monopoles" (1994). Dartmouth Scholarship. 1955.
https://digitalcommons.dartmouth.edu/facoa/1955
