Magnetic monopoles, long hypothesised in various extensions of the Standard Model, represent a singular source of magnetic charge—either north or south—in contrast to the dipolar nature of ...

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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 ...

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.

Many theories predict the existence of magnetic monopoles, but experiments have yet to see them. If you chop a magnet in half, you end up with two smaller magnets. Both the original and the new ...

Magnetic monopoles are cropping up in a material called spin ice, but their origins may still be too specific to that material to form the basis of a grand unified ...

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 ...