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Magnetic Charge and Quantum Field Theory
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A quantum field theory of magnetic and electric charge is constructed. It is verified to be relativistically invariant in consequence of the charge quantization condition $\frac{\mathrm{eg}}{\ensuremath{\hbar}c}=n$, an integer. This is more restrictive than Dirac's condition, which would also allow half-integral values.
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- Authors
- Schwinger, J.
- Venue
- Physical Review
- Publisher
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Published
- 1966-04-29
- Volume
- 144
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 1087-1093
- ISSN
- 0031-899X (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2083667531
- Cited by
- 511
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 10.81
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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