Abstract
It is demonstrated that the orbital angular momentum of a particle of charge orbiting around a tube with magnetic flux is quantized in units . A very simple physical argument for this is presented, and applied to understand the Dirac quantization condition and the charge-spin relation for particles bound to magnetic monopoles. The unusual statistics of flux-tube-charged-particle composites is discussed.
- Received 8 January 1982
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.48.1144
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