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arxiv: 1810.06540 · v1 · pith:HKOZM54Anew · submitted 2018-10-15 · ✦ hep-th · math-ph· math.MP

Small magnetic charges and monopoles in non-associative quantum mechanics

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Weak magnetic monopoles with a continuum of charges less than the minimum implied by Dirac's quantization condition may be possible in non-associative quantum mechanics. If a weakly magnetically charged proton in a hydrogen atom perturbs the standard energy spectrum only slightly, magnetic charges could have escaped detection. Testing this hypothesis requires entirely new methods to compute energy spectra in non-associative quantum mechanics. Such methods are presented here, and evaluated for upper bounds on the magnetic charge of elementary particles.

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