The ground state of non-associative hydrogen and upper bounds on the magnetic charge of elementary particles
arXiv:2011.07596 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.104.105009
Abstract
Formulations of magnetic monopoles in a Hilbert-space formulation of quantum mechanics require Dirac's quantization condition of magnetic charge, which implies a large value that can easily be ruled out for elementary particles by standard atomic spectroscopy. However, an algebraic formulation of non-associative quantum mechanics is mathematically consistent with fractional magnetic charges of small values. Here, spectral properties in non-associative quantum mechanics are derived, applied to the ground state of hydrogen with a magnetically charged nucleus. The resulting energy leads to new strong upper bounds for the magnetic charge of various elementary particles that can appear as the nucleus of hydrogen-like atoms, such as the muon or the antiproton.
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