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The monopole movement

The monopole picture for spin ice offers a natural description of a confounding class of materials. A 2009 paper in Nature Physics applied it to study the dynamical properties of these systems — sparking intense experimental and theoretical efforts in the years that followed.

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Castelnovo, C. The monopole movement. Nature Phys 11, 99–100 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys3251

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