Calorons, monopoles and stable, charged solitons

TL;DR

This paper explores the relationship between calorons, monopoles, and stable topological solitons, highlighting their Coulombic interactions and potential analogy to charged particles like electrons.

Contribution

It introduces a new interpretation of calorons and monopoles as classical solutions resembling charged particles with quantized charge and finite mass.

Findings

Calorons and monopoles exhibit Coulomb-like long-range interactions.

They can be interpreted as classical analogs of electrons and positrons.

The solutions have quantized charge and finite mass.

Abstract

We discuss the similarity of the constituent monopoles of calorons and stable topological solitons with long range Coulombic interaction, classical solutions of the model of topological particles. In the interpretation as electric charges they can be compared to electrons and positrons with spin up and down, with quantised charge and finite mass.