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Elementary excitations in spin ice take the form of magnetic monopoles
- Source :
- Physics Today. 61:16-19
- Publication Year :
- 2008
- Publisher :
- AIP Publishing, 2008.
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Abstract
- A magnet has two poles—north and south. But in a frustrated magnetic state known as spin ice, the familiar magnetic dipole can split into two magnetic charges that independently diffuse around the crystal.
Details
- ISSN :
- 19450699 and 00319228
- Volume :
- 61
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Physics Today
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........ec34d587bb3ded28bf11f517e0d7efa4
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2897936