So I've read quite a few papers recently claiming that if you have a system with periodic boundary conditions, there are no electrical charges. I'm trying to better understand why this is the case. Basically, there are no charges on toroidal geometries. My intuition is that you can't have one electrical charge because then the periodic boundary conditions imply you really have an infinite number of charges. Does anyone have a better explanation for why this is the case?
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