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Distinct symmetry enriched topological orders often do not have classical distinctions. Motivated by the recent progress on the pyrochlore spin ice materials based on the dipole-octupole doublets, we argue that the dipolar spin liquid and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-07 Pengwei Zhao , Gang v. Chen

A magnetic monopole in spin ice is a novel quasiparticle excitation in condensed matter physics, and we found that the ac frequency dependent magnetic susceptibility $\chi(\omega)$ in the two-dimensional (2D) spin ice (so-called kagom\'{e}…

The idea of magnetic monopoles in spin ice has enjoyed much success at intermediate temperatures, but at low temperatures a description in terms of monopole dynamics alone is insufficient. Recently, numerical simulations were used to argue…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-03 G. Sala , M. J. Gutmann , D. Prabhakaran , D. Pomaranski , C. Mitchelitis , J. B. Kycia , D. G. Porter , C. Castelnovo , J. P. Goff

An important and continuing theme of modern solid state physics is the realization of exotic excitations in materials (e.g. quasiparticles) that have no analogy (or have not yet been observed) in the actual physical vacuum of free space.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-05-04 LiDong Pan , N. J. Laurita , Kate A. Ross , Edwin Kermarrec , Bruce D. Gaulin , N. P. Armitage

Magnetic monopoles are known to emerge as leading non-perturbative fluctuations in the lattice version of non-Abelian gauge theories in some gauges. In terms of the Dirac quantization condition, these monopoles have magnetic charge |Q_M|=2.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-25 M. N. Chernodub , F. V. Gubarev , M. I. Polikarpov , V. I. Zakharov

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

A quantum spin liquid is a novel state of matter characterized by quantum entanglement and the absence of any broken symmetry. In condensed matter, the frustrated rare-earth pyrochlore magnets Ho$_2$Ti$_2$O$_7$ and Dy$_2$Ti$_2$O$_7$,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-04-05 E. Kermarrec , J. Gaudet , K. Fritsch , R. Khasanov , Z. Guguchia , C. Ritter , K. A. Ross , H. A. Dabkowska , B. D. Gaulin

It was proposed that spin ice, a class of rare earth titanates, hosts elementary excitations akin to magnetic monopoles. Recently, Bramwell and co-workers [arXiv:arXiv:0907.0956] measured the Wien effect in Dy2Ti2O7, directly probing the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-09-13 Claudio Castelnovo

Artificial monopoles have been engineered in various systems, yet there has been no systematic study of the singular vector potentials associated with the monopole field. We show that the Dirac string, the line singularity of the vector…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-04-10 Gui-Sheng Xu , Mudit Jain , Xiang-Fa Zhou , Guang-Can Guo , Mustafa A. Amin , Han Pu , Zheng-Wei Zhou

We present a proposal for applying nanoscale magnetometry to the search for magnetic monopoles in the spin ice materials holmium and dysprosium titanate. Employing Monte Carlo simulations of the dipolar spin ice model, we find that when…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-04-25 Franziska K. K. Kirschner , Felix Flicker , Amir Yacoby , Norman Y. Yao , Stephen J. Blundell

We show theoretically that a monopole defect, analogous to the Dirac magnetic monopole, may exist as the ground state of a dilute spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensate. The ground-state monopole is not attached to a single semi-infinite Dirac…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-30 Emmi Ruokokoski , Ville Pietilä , Mikko Möttönen

We study quantum spin ice in an external magnetic field applied along a $<100>$ direction. When quantum spin fluctuations are weak, elementary excitations are quantum strings with monopoles at their ends manifested as multiple spin-wave…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-06-18 Yuan Wan , Oleg Tchernyshyov

In the ground state of Ho2Ti2O7 spin ice, the disorder of the magnetic moments follows the same rules as the proton disorder in water ice. Excitations take the form of magnetic monopoles that interact via a magnetic Coulomb interaction.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-24 L. J. Chang , M. R. Lees , G. Balakrishnan , Y. -J. Kao , A. D. Hillier

The spin ice materials, including Ho2Ti2O7 and Dy2Ti2O7, are rare earth pyrochlore magnets which, at low temperatures, enter a constrained paramagnetic state with an emergent gauge freedom. Remarkably, the spin ices provide one of very few…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-07-29 Michel J. P. Gingras , Paul A. McClarty

A new static and azimuthally symmetric magnetic monopolelike object, which looks like a Dirac monopole when seen from far away but smoothly changes to a dipole near the monopole position and vanishes at the origin, is discussed. This…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-18 Shinichi Deguchi , Kazuo Fujikawa

The magnetically frustrated spin ice family of materials is host to numerous exotic phenomena such as magnetic monopole excitations and macroscopic residual entropy extending to low temperature. A finite-temperature ordering transition in…

Elementary excitations in the spin-ice compound Dy$_2$Ti$_2$O$_7$ can be described as magnetic monopoles propagating independently within the pyrochlore lattice formed by magnetic Dy ions. We studied the magnetic-field dependence of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-05 G. Kolland , O. Breunig , M. Valldor , M. Hiertz , J. Frielingsdorf , T. Lorenz

In Refs.[1-4] Dirac and Schwinger showed the existence of a magnetic monopole required a charge quantization condition which we write following Dirac as $\frac{eg}{4\pi\hbar}=\frac{n}{2},\; n=0,\pm 1,\; \pm 2, \ldots$. Here, $g$ is the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-05-06 A. Farhan , M. Saccone , B. F. L. Ward

Magnetic monopoles can appear as emergent structures in a wide range of physical settings, ranging from spin ice to Weyl points in semimetals. Here, a distribution of synthetic (Berry) monopoles in parameter space of a slowly changing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Andreas Eriksson , Erik Sjöqvist

Magnetricity- the magnetic equivalent of electricity- was recently verified experimentally for the first time. Indeed, just as the stream of electric charges produces electric current, emergent magnetic monopoles have been observed to roam…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-17 R. P. Loreto , L. A. Morais , R. C. Silva , F. S. Nascimento , C. I. L. de Araujo , L. A. S. Mól , W. A. Moura-Melo , A. R. Pereira