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Haruki Watanabe1, Hitoshi Murayama2
1Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.
Abstract:
We show that momentum operators of a topological soliton may not commute among themselves when the soliton is associated with the second cohomology H2 of the target space. The commutation relation is proportional to the winding number, taking a constant value within each topological sector. The noncommutativity makes it impossible to specify the momentum of a topological soliton, and induces a Magnus force.
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