Conceptual Foundations of Soliton Versus Particle Dualities Toward a Topological Model for Matter

• Published in: International journal of theoretical physics Vol. 55; no. 6; pp. 2949 - 2968
• Main Author: Kouneiher, Joseph
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01-06-2016
• Subjects: Elementary Particles; Mathematical and Computational Physics; Physics; Physics and Astronomy; Quantum Field Theory; Quantum Physics; Theoretical; Skyrme model; Thirring model; Integrabel systems; Topological model quantum field theory; Duality soliton-particle
• ISSN: 0020-7748; 1572-9575
• DOI: 10.1007/s10773-016-2928-8

The idea that fermions could be solitons was actually confirmed in theoretical models in 1975 in the case when the space-time is two-dimensional and with the sine-Gordon model. More precisely S. Coleman showed that two different classical models end up describing the same fermions particle, when the quantum theory is constructed. But in one model the fermion is a quantum excitation of the field and in the other model the particle is a soliton. Hence both points of view can be reconciliated.The principal aim in this paper is to exhibit a solutions of topological type for the fermions in the wave zone, where the equations of motion are non-linear field equations, i.e. using a model generalizing sine- Gordon model to four dimensions, and describe the solutions for linear and circular polarized waves. In other words, the paper treat fermions as topological excitations of a bosonic field.