Moessner and his colleagues use an astonishingly simple model to explain magnetic monopoles as a collective phenomenon in spin ice. The starting point of the model are the magnetic moments at the ...

Magnetic monopoles are theoretical particles that possess a single magnetic charge, either north or south, as opposed to the dipoles we observe in everyday magnets, which have both a north and a ...

The search for magnetic monopoles has consumed the field of condensed matter physics for nearly a century. Now an international team of scientists from the U.K. and China have found emergent ...