Creation of Magnetic Monopoles in Classical Scattering

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates the generation of magnetic monopoles through classical scattering of gauge field wave packets, highlighting the role of initial conditions and parity violation in monopole creation.

Contribution

It introduces a method to create magnetic monopoles via classical scattering and shows how initial conditions influence topological charge separation.

Findings

Magnetic monopoles can be generated by scattering gauge field wave packets.

Parity violating initial conditions lead to clear monopole separation.

Parity symmetric initial conditions do not produce distinct topological charge separation.

Abstract

We consider the creation of 't Hooft-Polyakov magnetic monopoles by scattering classical wave packets of gauge fields. An example with eight clearly separated magnetic poles created with parity violating helical initial conditions is shown. No clear separation of topological charge is observed with corresponding parity symmetric initial conditions.