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In three-dimensional space an electron moving in the field of a magnetic monopole has no bound states. In this paper we explore the physics when the electron is restricted to a two-dimensional plane adjacent to a magnetic monopole. We find…

Competing interactions in the so-called spin-ice compounds stabilize a frustrated ground-state with finite zero-point entropy and, interestingly, emergent magnetic monopole excitations. The properties of these monopoles are at the focus of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-11-12 Christoph P. Grams , Martin Valldor , Markus Garst , Joachim Hemberger

In this paper, we argue that the elusive magnetic monopole arises due to the strong magnetic effects arising from the non commutative space time structure at small scales.If this structure is ignored and we work with Minkowski spacetime,…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. G. Sidharth

Electrical charges are conserved. The same would be expected to hold for magnetic charges, yet magnetic monopoles have never been observed. It is therefore surprising that the laws of non-equilibrium thermodynamics, combined with Maxwell's…

Recently, an effective non-Abelian magnetic field with a topology of a monopole was shown to emerge from the adiabatic motion of multilevel atoms in spatially varying laser fields [J. Ruseckas et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 010404 (2005)]. We…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Ville Pietilä , Mikko Möttönen

The search for new elementary particles is one of the most basic pursuits in physics, spanning from subatomic physics to quantum materials. Magnons are the ubiquitous elementary quasiparticle to describe the excitations of fully-ordered…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-08-01 Xiaojian Bai , Shang-Shun Zhang , Hao Zhang , Zhiling Dun , W. Adam Phelan , V. Ovidiu Garlea , Martin Mourigal , Cristian D. Batista

Dirac showed that the existence of one magnetic pole in the universe could offer an explanation for the discrete nature of the electric charge. Magnetic poles appear naturally in most Grand Unified Theories. Their discovery would be of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Luis N. Epele , Huner Fanchiotti , Carlos A. Garcia Canal , Vicente Vento

Proceeding from the more general to the more concrete, we propose an equilibrium field theory describing spin ice systems in terms of topological charges and magnetic monopoles. We show that for a spin ice on a graph, the entropic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-21 Cristiano Nisoli

Excitations from a strongly frustrated system, the kagome ice state of the spin ice Dy2Ti2O7 under magnetic fields along a [111] direction, have been studied. They are theoretically proposed to be regarded as magnetic monopoles. Neutron…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-15 Hiroaki Kadowaki , Naohiro Doi , Yuji Aoki , Yoshikazu Tabata , Taku J. Sato , Jeffrey W. Lynn , Kazuyuki Matsuhira , Zenji Hiroi

Minicharged particles arise naturally in extensions of the Standard Model with a kinetic mixing term between the ordinary electromagnetic U(1) and an extra "hidden sector" U(1). In this note we study the compatibility of these particles…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-18 Felix Bruemmer , Joerg Jaeckel

Dirac showed that the existence of one magnetic pole in the universe could offer an explanation of the discrete nature of the electric charge. Magnetic poles appear naturally in most grand unified theories. Their discovery would be of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-06 Vicente Vento

Artificial spin ices (ASI), containing magnetic monopole quasi-particles emerging at room temperature, have been investigated as a promising system to be applied in alternative low-power information technology devices. However, restrictions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-26 D. G. Duarte , S. F. de Souza , L. B. de Oliveira , E. B. M. Junior , E. N. D. de Araujo , J. M. Fonseca , C. I. L. de Araujo

A \emph{monopole liquid} is a magnetic charge-disordered spin system defined over an Ising pyrochlore lattice, with one single topological charge or \emph{monopole} in each tetrahedron. We define a simple model Hamiltonian for this system…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-05-24 D. Slobinsky , G. Baglietto , R. A. Borzi

The "spin ice" state found in the rare earth pyrochlore magnets Ho2Ti2O7 and Dy2Ti2O7 offers a beautiful realisation of classical magnetostatics, complete with magnetic monopole excitations. It has been suggested that in "quantum spin ice"…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-04 Owen Benton , Olga Sikora , Nic Shannon

This work makes a theoretical study of the dynamics of emergent elemental excitations in artificial spin ice systems with hexagonal geometry during the magnetic reversion of the system. The magnetic and physical parameters of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-12 Alejandra Leon

Artificial spin ice systems are metamaterials composed of interacting nanomagnets arranged on a lattice, exhibiting geometrical frustration and emergent phenomena such as monopole excitations. We explore magnetization dynamics and monopole…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-28 Julia Frank , Johan van Lierop , Robert L. Stamps

Dirac showed that the existence of one magnetic pole in the universe could offer an explanation of the discrete nature of the electric charge. Magnetic poles appear naturally in most Grand Unified Theories. Their discovery would be of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Vicente Vento

Magnetic monopoles and kinks are topological excitations extensively investigated in quantum spin systems, but usually they are studied in different setups. We explore the conditions for the coexistence and the interaction effects of these…

Magnetic monopole, a hypothetical elementary particle with isolated magnetic pole, is crucial for the quantization of electric charge. In recent years, analogues of magnetic monopoles, represented by topological defects in parameter spaces,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-08-01 Haiping Hu , Chuanwei Zhang

The observation of isolated positive and negative charges, but not isolated magnetic north and south poles, is an old puzzle. Instead, evidence of effective magnetic monopoles has been found in the abstract momentum space. Apart from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-19 Kjetil M. D. Hals , Anh Kiet Nguyen , Xavier Waintal , Arne Brataas