An international team led by Rutgers University-New Brunswick researchers has merged two lab-synthesized materials into a synthetic quantum structure once thought impossible to exist and produced an exotic structure expected to provide insights that could lead to new materials at the core of quantum computing.
I had no idea that monopoles were so common and disruptive that we needed to trap them. Seems like just two years ago we had just barely confirmed their existence after a century of searching.
Monopoles still don’t exist. This is a quasi particle. It’s a bunch of atoms structured so it acts like a theoretical monopole would look like.
Given that the magnetic field is the electric field distorted by viewing from a moving reference frame, I don’t understand how a quantum monopole particle is physically possible. It seems analogous to looking for a quantum particle responsible for the centrifugal force.
Science is awesome.
One step closer to xenonit!
Rocky would be proud.
