Regular magnets have two poles, a north and a south, and their behavior is defined in classical terms by the Maxwell equations. From contemporaries of Maxwell through to modern researchers, there have ...

The collective excitation modes of hedgehog lattices are governed by oscillation of Dirac strings, connecting a hedgehog and an antihedgehog, which can be used to study their spatial configuration in ...

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New research using a decommissioned section of the beam pipe from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN has bought scientists closer than ever before to test whether magnetic monopoles exist.

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? The search for magnetic monopoles has consumed the field of condensed matter physics ...

Researchers at Aalto University (Finland) and Amherst College (USA) have observed a point-like monopole in a quantum field itself for the first time. This discovery connects to important ...

Magnets are notoriously codependent. Try to break apart a magnet's north and south ends, and each half gets its own fresh set of two poles. Scientists have long hunted for a lone north or south ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? Topological monopoles are a quantum physics phenomenon that can decay into what’s ...

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To understand the unique physical phenomena associated with the properties of magnetic hedgehogs and antihedgehogs, which behave as virtual magnetic monopoles and antimonopoles respectively, it is ...