发现了磁单极子

Frankenstein

磁单极子是理论物理学弦理论中指一些仅带有北极或南极单一磁极的磁性物质，它们的磁感线分布类似于点电荷的电场线分布。这种物质的存在性在科学界时有纷争，截至2008年尚未发现这种物体。可以说是21世纪物理学界重要的研究主题之一。在2009年9月3日的《科学》杂志上刊载了一篇记录人类首次观测到磁单极子的论文。

我在维基百科上看到的。这么神奇？
下面是Science Daily上的新闻。应该的确是真的了。


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Magnetic Monopoles Detected In A Real Magnet For The First Time

ScienceDaily (Sep. 4, 2009) — Researchers from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie have, in cooperation with colleagues from Dresden, St. Andrews, La Plata and Oxford, for the first time observed magnetic monopoles and how they emerge in a real material.
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Results of their research are being published in the journal Science.

Magnetic monopoles are hypothetical particles proposed by physicists that carry a single magnetic pole, either a magnetic north pole or south pole. In the material world this is quite exceptional because magnetic particles are usually observed as dipoles, north and south combined. However there are several theories that predict the existence of monopoles. Among others, in 1931 the physicist Paul Dirac was led by his calculations to the conclusion that magnetic monopoles can exist at the end of tubes – called Dirac strings – that carry magnetic field. Until now they have remained undetected.

Jonathan Morris, Alan Tennant and colleagues (HZB) undertook a neutron scattering experiment at the Berlin research reactor. The material under investigation was a single crystal of Dysprosium Titanate. This material crystallises in a quite remarkable geometry, the so called pyrochlore-lattice. With the help of neutron scattering Morris and Tennant show that the magnetic moments inside the material had reorganised into so-called 'spin-spaghetti'. This name comes from the ordering of the dipoles themselves, such that a network of contorted tubes (strings) develops, through which magnetic flux is transported. These can be made visible by their interaction with the neutrons which themselves carry a magnetic moment. Thus the neutrons scatter as a reciprocal representation of the Strings.

During the neutron scattering measurements a magnetic field was applied to the crystal by the researchers. With this field they could influence the symmetry and orientation of the strings. Thereby it was possible to reduce the density of the string networks and promote the monopole dissociation. As a result, at temperatures from 0.6 to 2 Kelvin, the strings are visible and have magnetic monopoles at their ends.

The signature of a gas made up by these monopoles has also been observed in heat capacity measured by Bastian Klemke (HZB). Providing further confirmation of the existence of monopoles and showing that they interact in the same way as electric charges.

In this work the researchers, for the first time, attest that monopoles exist as emergent states of matter, i.e. they emerge from special arrangements of dipoles and are completely different from the constituents of the material. However, alongside this fundamental knowledge, Jonathan Morris explains the further meaning of the results: "We are writing about new, fundamental properties of matter. These properties are generally valid for materials with the same topology, that is for magnetic moments on the pyrochlore lattice. For the development of new technologies this can have big implications. Above all it signifies the first time fractionalisation in three dimensions is observed."

Journal reference:

   1. D.J.P. Morris, D.A. Tennant, S.A. Grigera, B. Klemke, C. Castelnovo, R. Moessner, C. Czter-nasty, M. Meissner, K.C. Rule, J.-U. Hoffmann, K. Kiefer, S. Gerischer, D. Slobinsky, and R.S. Perry. Dirac Strings and Magnetic Monopoles in Spin Ice Dy2Ti2O7. Science, 2009; DOI: 10.1126/science.1178868

wayne

如果是真的话,那就完了
很多定理将需要被改写
连最富盛名的麦克斯韦方程组都得重新考虑

wayne

我感觉这个消息会被物理界的主流当成"民科"的材料

winxos

磁单极子是理论物理学弦理论中指一些仅带有北极或南极单一磁极的磁性物质，它们的磁感线分布类似于点电荷的电场线分布。这种物质的存在性在科学界时有纷争，截至2008年尚未发现这种物体。可以说是21世纪物理学界重要 ...
Frankenstein 发表于 2009-9-28 20:21

这种新闻我高中时候就听说过了。。。
我也认为是民科

Frankenstein

的确 ，我也经常听到这种新闻

mathabc

磁单极子 在高中时说到过这个东东，如果发现了意义何在高中老师没说，自己也没查阅。O(∩_∩)O~

无心人

应该不存在

磁现象是物质运动的产物
必然伴随两极磁场