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2010 - Dirac Strings and Monopoles imaged.
« on: October 20, 2010, 08:55:16 pm »

Moving Monopoles Caught on Camera

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... a team of researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI in Switzerland and University College Dublin have managed to create monpoles in the form of quasiparticles in an assembly of nanoscale magnets and to observe how they move using a microscope at the Swiss Light Source (SLS) to make the magnetic structures visible. As with the elementary monopoles, which were first predicted by the british physicist Paul Dirac in 1931, each monopole is connected by a “string” to a monopole of opposite charge. The two monopoles can nevertheless move independently of each other. These results are not only of scientific interest, but could also provide a basis for the development of future electronic devices.


... but are they really monopoles? I think I'll have to read it again.