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't Hooft-Polyakov monopole: a standalone construct

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a smooth soliton solution carrying magnetic charge that arises when a non-Abelian gauge symmetry is broken to a group containing electromagnetism.

In particle physics, 't Hooft-Polyakov monopole refers to a smooth soliton solution carrying magnetic charge that arises when a non-Abelian gauge symmetry is broken to a group containing electromagnetism. This meaning comes from Hooft (1974) in Nuclear Physics B.[1]

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Hooft, G. '. (1974). Magnetic monopoles in unified gauge theories. Nuclear Physics B, 79(2), 276-284. https://doi.org/10.1016/0550-3213(74)90486-6

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