The internal orientation is a periodic collective coordinate with period . Its conjugate momentum is the integrated canonical charge. The Bohr-Sommerfeld quantization for a positively oriented circuit of this angle is, in units ,
There is no oscillator turning point and hence no half-integer Maslov correction for this cyclic coordinate. Equivalently, a wavefunction must be single valued. At , the allowed signed charges and leading semiclassical masses in the family are therefore
The signed integers include both rotation directions and the nonrotating state. Every finite integer gives .
For nonzero theta it is still the canonical charge that is integral, while the mechanical charge is shifted:
For the stated family set ; the reversed kink gives the corresponding family. This is the semiclassical charged-kink spectrum with a theta angle. One may equivalently describe the spectrum by fractional mechanical charges instead of integral canonical charges, but the two conventions must not be mixed. The theta periodicity follows by relabeling the integer when . These are leading semiclassical energies; the quantization argument does not assert that quantum fluctuation corrections vanish.