Moessner and his colleagues use an astonishingly simple model to explain magnetic monopoles as a collective phenomenon in spin ice. The starting point of the model are the magnetic moments at the ...

"If monopoles did exist, and we were able to isolate them, it would be like finding a missing puzzle piece that was assumed to be lost," says physicist Mete Atatüre, from the University of Cambridge.

Scientists with their new experiment have come closer to test whether magnetic monopoles exist. Using a decommissioned section of the beam pipe from CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, scientists ...