Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2000-10-31
JHEP 0012 (2000) 028
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
32 pages, LaTeX, no figures
Scientific paper
10.1088/1126-6708/2000/12/028
We analyse spin and statistics of quantum dyon fields, i.e. fields carrying both electric and magnetic charge, in 3+1 space-time dimensions. It has been shown long time ago that, at the quantum mechanical level, a composite dyon made out of a magnetic pole of charge g and a particle of electric charge e possesses half-integral spin and fermionic statistics, if the constituents are bosons and the Dirac quantization condition $eg=2\pi n$ holds, with n odd. This phenomenon is called spin-statistics transmutation. We show that the same phenomenon occurs at the quantum field theory level for an elementary dyon. This analysis requires the construction of gauge invariant charged dyon fields. Dirac's proposal for such fields, relying on a Coulomb-like photon cloud, leads to quantum correlators exhibiting an unphysical dependence on the Dirac-string. Recently Froehlich and Marchetti proposed a recipe for charged dyon fields, based on a sum over Mandelstam-strings, which overcomes this problem. Using this recipe we derive explicit expressions for the quantum field theory correlators and we provide a proof of the occurrence of spin-statistics transmutation. The proof reduces to a computation of the self-linking numbers of dyon worldlines and Mandelstam strings, projected on a fixed time three-space. Dyon composites are also analysed. The transmutation discussed in this paper bares some analogy with the appearance of anomalous spin and statistics for particles or vortices in Chern-Simons theories in 2+1 dimensions. However, peculiar features appear in 3+1 dimensions e.g. in the spin addition rule.
Lechner Kurt
Marchetti P. A.
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