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A close analogy is pointed out between dyons (particles with electric and magnetic charge) in grand-unified theories and solitons in antiferromagnetic chains. For nonzero topological angle θ, dyon electric charges are noninteger: q=(n+θ2π)e. An analogous phenomenon occurs in antiferromagnets with alternating interactions.
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Ian Affleck (1986) studied this question.
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