Berry phase and induced fractional fermion number on vaccum

We show that, in four dimensional field-theoretical model containing fermion field and background isovector scalar field, an induced magnetic monopole field emerges as a result of adiabatical evolution of the scalar field. For the corresponding Dirac Hamiltonian the degenerate eigenmodes of the vacuum are known to exist. The effective system is then shown to give fractional fermion number on vacuum. In the present approach the magnetic monopole field is not quite essentially given as a topologically non-trivial external field but induced as the result of adiabatic evolution of a scalar field. (orig.)