Non-Abelian statistics versus the Witten anomaly

This paper is motivated by prospects for non-Abelian statistics of deconfined particlelike objects in 3+1 dimensions, realized as solitons with localized Majorana zero modes. To this end, we study the fermionic collective coordinates of magnetic monopoles in 3+1-dimensional spontaneously-broken SU(2...

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Main Authors: McGreevy, John (Contributor), Swingle, Brian Gordon (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society, 2012-01-25T20:24:22Z.
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520 |a This paper is motivated by prospects for non-Abelian statistics of deconfined particlelike objects in 3+1 dimensions, realized as solitons with localized Majorana zero modes. To this end, we study the fermionic collective coordinates of magnetic monopoles in 3+1-dimensional spontaneously-broken SU(2) gauge theories with various spectra of fermions. We argue that a single Majorana zero mode of the monopole is not compatible with cancellation of the Witten SU(2) anomaly. We also compare this approach with other attempts to realize deconfined non-Abelian objects in 3+1 dimensions. 
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