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Sep 26, 2021

Magnetic monopoles in spin ice

Posted by in categories: particle physics, quantum physics

Circa 2008


A theoretical study proposes that magnetic monopoles may appear not as elementary but as emergent particles in complex, strongly-correlated magnetic systems such as spin ice, in analogy to fractional electric charges in quantum Hall systems. This theory explains a mysterious phase transition in spin ice that has been observed experimentally.

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