Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Spin Ice


Magnetic monopoles in spin ice

It seems my earlier assertion that you probably need GUT energies to realize Dirac's magnetic monopole overlooked the side door that a few solid state physicists have been opening up. The journal articles are holding their breath on a few fronts, while the pop-sci articles have already picked out the color on the new quantum computer cases.(I want a tan and creme one to go with my udu drum)

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