Self-dual fields as charge-density solitons
- 26 October 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 59 (17) , 1873-1876
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.59.1873
Abstract
Two-dimensional Poincareaa-invariant self-dual fields are consistently quantized. A fermionic formulation is shown to be equivalent to a nonlocal bosonic one. Self-dual boson fields are solitons describing a charge-density wave of paired fermions.Keywords
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