A synthetic magnetic monopole might look like this. (Courtesy: Heikka Valja) An analogue of a long-sought-after particle comprising an isolated magnetic pole has been observed by physicists in the US ...

Magnetic monopoles were first posited as part of a quantum theory by Paul Dirac in 1931, who thought of them as a magnetic analog to an electron or proton.

Eighty years after they were first theorized, scientists have just created an artificial magnetic monopole. Monopoles were first conceived in their modern form more than 80 years ago by Paul Dirac ...

The Monopole and Exotics Detector at the Large Hadron Collider has taken up the search but has found no monopoles to date. As a result, magnetic monopole enthusiasts have turned their sights to ...

In late 2009, various teams of scientists reported they had created monopole-like behaviour in a material called ‘spin ice’. In these materials, monopoles form only at extremely low temperatures of ...

A theoretical study proposes that magnetic monopoles may appear not as elementary but as emergent particles in complex, strongly-correlated magnetic systems such as spin ice, in analogy to ...

For a monopole with twice the minimum charge, Rajantie and Gould determined that magnetic monopoles must be more massive than about 10 billion electron volts, going by data from collisions of lead ...

To detect magnetic monopoles, the MoEDAL researchers used a superconductive magnetometer to scan the detector modules exposed to the LHC lead-lead collisions for signatures of trapped magnetic charge.

Scientists have managed to create artificial magnetic monopoles. To do this, they merged tiny magnetic whirls, so-called skyrmions. At the point of merging, the physicists were able to create a ...

Scientists from the University of Nottingham, working with an international team, have exposed the strictest limitations yet on the existence of magnetic monopoles in a study reported in Physical ...

Magnetic monopoles found lurking in topological chiral crystals. These experiments have not made any detections so far, so the researchers we able to put upper limits on the production of magnetic ...