https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-6224-z
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Alternative description of magnetic monopoles in quantum mechanics
1
Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 10 Burlington Road, Dublin 4, Ireland
2
Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University Bratislava, Mlynská dolina, Bratislava, Slovakia
* e-mail: skovacik@stp.dias.ie
Received:
30
July
2018
Accepted:
6
September
2018
Published online:
17
September
2018
We present an alternative description of magnetic monopoles by lifting quantum mechanics from 3-dimensional space into a one with 2 complex dimensions. Magnetic monopoles are realised as a generalisation of the considered physical states. Usual algebraic relations and magnetic fields describing monopoles are reproduced, with the Dirac quantisation condition satisfied naturally.
© The Author(s), 2018
