Dirac-Schwinger Quantization for Emergent Magnetic Monopoles?
Strongly Correlated Electrons
2025-05-06 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
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 . Here, is the magnetic monopole charge and is the electric charge of the positron. Recently, in Refs. [5,6], it has been shown experimentally that frustrated spin-ice systems exhibit 'emergent' magnetic monopoles. We show that, within the experimental errors, the respective magnetic charges obey the Dirac-Schwinger quantization condition. Possible implications are discussed.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2501.04704,
title = {Dirac-Schwinger Quantization for Emergent Magnetic Monopoles?},
author = {A. Farhan and M. Saccone and B. F. L. Ward},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.04704},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
4 pages, no figures; typo corrected, extended discussion, orcid links added, new department name added