It is often said that the existence of a single monopole would force electric charge to be quantized, due to Dirac's argument. However, one can write down theories like QED that, independently of the existence of monopoles, have charge occurring strictly in integer multiples of some fundamental value. What is an explicit example of a theory containing of matter coupled to a $U(1)$ gauge field for which charge is not integer-quantized?
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