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Are gravitomagnetic monopoles hypothesized?
My understanding is that gravitomagnetism is essentially the same relativistic effect as magnetism. If so, why is it that I've heard so much about magnetic monopoles, but never gravitomagnetic ...
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What tree-level Feynman diagrams are added to QED if magnetic monopoles exist?
Are the added diagrams the same as for the $e-\gamma$ interaction, but with "$e$" replaced by "monopole"? If so, is the force between two magnetic monopoles described by the same virtual ...
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Is it possible to separate the poles of a magnet?
It might seem common sense that when we split a magnet we get 2 magnets with their own N-S poles. But somehow, I find it hard to accept this fact.(Which I now know is stated by Gauss's Law)
I have ...
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Magnetic monopoles
I am a non-expert in this field, just have a layman's interest in the subject. Has anyone ever considered the possibility of magnetic monopoles (one positive and one negative charge) being confined ...
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What is the magnetic field inside hollow ball of magnets
Setup: we have a large number of thin magnets shaped such that we can place them side by side and eventually form a hollow ball. The ball we construct will have the north poles of all of the magnets ...
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What happens to the magnetic field in this case?
As far as I know, it's possible to create a radially polarised ring magnet, where one pole is on the inside, and the field lines cross the circumference at right angles.
So imagine if I made one ...
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How would I go about detecting monopoles?
A question needed for a "solid" sci-fi author: How to detect a strong magnetic monopole? (yes, I know no such thing is to be found on Earth).
Think of basic construction details, principles of ...
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How does Inflation solve the Magnetic Monopole problem?
Cosmological Inflation was proposed by Alan Guth to explain the flatness problem, the horizon problem and the magnetic monopole problem. I think I pretty much understand the first two, however I don't ...
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Effect of introducing magnetic charge on use of vector potential
It is well known that Maxwell equations can be made symmetric w.r.t. $E$ and $B$ by introducing non-zero magnetic charge density/flux.
In this case we have $div B = \rho_m$, where $\rho_m$ is a ...
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Why do physicists believe that there exist magnetic monopoles?
One thing I've heard stated many times is that "most" or "many" physicists believe that, despite the fact that they have not been observed, there are such things as magnetic monopoles.
However, I've ...
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Magnetic monopole and electromagnetic field quantization procedure
From the Maxwell's equations point of view, existence of magnetic monopole leads to unsuitability of the introduction of vector potential as $\vec B = \operatorname{rot}\vec A$. As a result, it was ...
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Can the poles of a magnet have varying intensity?
In re-reading Is it possible to separate the poles of a magnet? (amongst others) the question mentioned in the title here just occurred to me.
It may not be possible, at our current levels of ...
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Winding number in the topology of magnetic monopoles
I am reading on magnetic monopoles from a variety of sources, eg. the Jeff Harvey lectures.. It talks about something called the winding $N$, which is used to calculate the magnetic flux. I searched ...
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Why do we like gauge potentials so much?
Today I read articles and texts about Dirac monopoles and I have been wondering about the insistence on gauge potentials. Why do they seem (or why are they) so important to create a theory about ...
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Do semiclassical GR and charge quantisation imply magnetic monopoles?
Assuming charge quantisation and semiclassical gravity, would the absence of magnetically charged black holes lead to a violation of locality, or some other inconsistency? If so, how?
(I am not ...
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can one introduce magnetic monopoles without Dirac strings?
To introduce magnetic monopoles in Maxwell equations, Dirac uses special strings, that are singularities in space, allowing potentials to be gauge potentials. A consequence of this is the quantization ...
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Basic question on magnetism regarding north and south pole
I am currently busy with some magnetism and quite shockingly (to me at least) I haven't yet read anything about the difference between the north pole and the south pole of a magnet. Before I started ...
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Dirac string on (periodic) compact space
For a non-compact space, the Dirac string can be defined as a line joining the Dirac monopole to infinity (or another Dirac monopole). The region where the gauge connection is ill-defined. (as can be ...
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What is the action for an electromagnetic field if including magnetic charge
Recently, I try to write an action of an electromagnetic field with magnetic charge and quantize it. But it seems not as easy as it seems to be. Does anyone know anything or think of anything like ...
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The quantum-mechanical description of an electron motion in a magnetic monopole field
The quantum-mechanical motion problem of an electron in electric field of the nucleus is well known. The quantum-mechanical description of electron motion in a magnetic field is also not difficult, ...
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Does a rotating magnetic monopole have electric and magnetic moment in classical view?
Would a rotating sphere of magnetic monopole charge have electric moment ?
In a duality transformation E->B.c etc. how is the magnetic moment translated m = I.S -> ?
Mel = d/dt(-Qmag/c).S ?
A more ...
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What is the mass of the emergent magnetic monopoles in spin ice and how is the mass of an emergent particle determined?
In solid state physics emergent particles are very common.
How one determines if they are gap-less excitations?
Do the defects in spin ice called magnetic monopoles have mass?
What is the mass of ...
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Dirac's quantization rule
I first recall the Dirac's quantization rule, derived under the hypothesis that there would exit somewhere a magnetic charge: $\frac{gq}{4\pi} = \frac{n\hbar}{2} $ with $n$ natural.
I am wondering ...
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Does existence of magnetic monopole break covariant form of Maxwell’s equations for potentials?
Absence of magnetic charges is reflected in one of Maxwell's fundamental equations:
$$\operatorname{div} \vec B = 0 \text{ (1).}$$
This equation allows us to introducte concept of vector potential:
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Can you put a magnetic ball into a hollow magnetic sphere?
if all magnets have to have two poles(one north one south), is it possible to construct a hollow sphere where the inside face of the sphere was one pole, and the outside face another pole?
is it also ...
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Why are electric charges allowed to be so light but magnetic monopoles have to be so heavy?
My question is in two parts.
What is the origin of the electric field from an electric charge and why electron can have so small mass? While on the other hand for a magnetic monopole to create a ...
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Using the covariant derivative to find force between 't Hooft-Polyakov magnetic monopoles
I am reading this research paper authored by NS Manton on the Force between 't Hooft-Polyakov monopoles. I have a doubt in equation 3.6 and 3.7. We assume the gauge field for a slowly accelerating ...
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Divergence calculation of a lie algebra valued quantity having spinor indices
I am reading this paper by E. Weinberg - Fundamental monopoles and multimonopole solutions for arbitrary simple gauge groups.
I am having a problem with a calculation. I don't have much experience ...
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How to make a monopole magnet?
I want to create a monopole magnet. Is this practically / theoretically possible?
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What exactly does this news story mean by “magnetic charge”?
I recently saw this article in my Google News page, whose headline and first paragraph are:
Antimatter's Magnetic Charge Revealed
Scientists say they've made the most precise measurements to ...
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Why magnetic monopole found in spin ice don't modify the Maxwell's Equations?
Magnetic monopole predicted by Dirac nearly a century ago was found in spin ice as quasi-particle(2). My question is Why magnetic monopole found in spin ice don't modify the Maxwell's Equations? (I ...
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Proof of quantization of magnetic charge of monopoles using homotopy groups
Suppose we place a monopole at the origin $\{{\bf 0}\}$, and the gauge field is well-definded in region $\mathbb R^3-\{0\}$ which is homomorphic to a sphere $S^2$.
Then the total manifold is $U(1)$ ...
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Dirac magnetic monopoles and electric charge quantization
Wikipedia describes how assuming the existence of a single magnetic monopole leads to electric charge quantization. But what if there's more than one? The same argument would apply to each of them ...
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Killing vectors for SO(3) (rotational) symmetry
I am reading a paper$^1$ by Manton and Gibbons on the dynamics of BPS monopoles. In this, they write the Atiyah-Hitchin metric for a two-monopole system. The first part is for the one monopole moduli ...
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Orientation of Magnetic Dipoles
Does a magnetic dipole (in a permanent magnet) tend to align with the B-field or with the H-field?
The current loop (Ampère) model of the magnetic dipole suggests the former, while the ...
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Hypothetical very massive particles
I'm looking for a table or compilation of hypothetical very massive ($m\gtrsim 1$ TeV) particles and their expected masses (or bounds on them or relation with other scales). All I know is (please, ...
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With estimates of mass constraints on magnetic monopoles, how likely is one to be found by the LHC(MoEDAL)?
Fermilab seems to have ruled out monopoles with mass less than 850 GeV, but I have seen some estimates of the mass thought to be in the order of up to $10^{18}$ GeV, which, of course, would make them ...
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Magnetic poles in Halbach array?
I am a bit confused by the description of Halbach arrays. It is said that the line of magnets aligned in certain way results in cancellation of magnetic field on one side of the array, and ...
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What is the winding number of a magnetic monopole, and why is it conserved
I had asked a similar question about a calculation involving the winding number here. But i haven't got a satisfactory response. So, I am rephrasing this question in a slightly different manner. What ...
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Relation between electric charge and gauge parameter of the moduli space of monopoles
I am studying about the moduli space of a 2 monopole system from Harvey's notes, and Manton's paper. In both of these, (Harvey section 6.2), after constructing the Lagrangian for a two dyons system, ...
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Can we create a magnet with only one Pole? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to make a monopole magnet?
No matter how many times you cut a magnet, we always end up with 2 poles. Is there any possibility of creating a monopole magnet?
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Does the universe appear to be a monopole to a ferromagnetic object within a solenoid?
Just what the title states, please.
To a ferromagnetic object placed at the centre of a solenoid (E.g. car-starter), does it appear that the universe around it is a monopole?
p.s. Preferably in ...
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Limit of the scalar field, and potential for a soliton ( finite energy, non dissipative) solution
I want to prove that the the scalar field of the yang-mills lagrangian tends to some constant value which is a function of theta at infinity and that this value is a zero of the potential, when we ...
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Gravimagnetic monopole and General relativity
Review and hystorical background:
Gravitomagnetism (GM), refers to a set of formal analogies between Maxwell's field equations and an approximation, valid under certain conditions, to the Einstein ...
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What is Higgs transition?
In recent publications there is a frequent mentioning of the so-called "Higgs transition" in connection with magnetic monoples. Can anybody please describe the phenomenon in simple terms?
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