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Nature Physics 5, 250 - 251 (2009)
doi:10.1038/nphys1244

Subject Categories: Materials physics | Particle physics

Magnetism: Monopoles on the move

Roderich Moessner1 & Peter Schiffer2

  1. Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme, 01187 Dresden, Germany
    e-mail: moessner@pks.mpg.de
  2. Department of Physics and Materials Research Institute, Pennsylvania State University, 104 Davey Laboratory, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA.
    e-mail: schiffer@phys.psu.edu


Magnetic materials provide a new context for observing magnetic monopoles. Numerical simulations now establish an experimentally measurable signature of their dynamics — one that has in fact already been seen in a spin-ice compound.

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