{"id":170841,"date":"2023-08-29T13:23:11","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T18:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/quantum-discovery-verifies-a-decades-old-theory-on-how-monopoles-decay"},"modified":"2023-08-29T13:23:11","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T18:23:11","slug":"quantum-discovery-verifies-a-decades-old-theory-on-how-monopoles-decay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/quantum-discovery-verifies-a-decades-old-theory-on-how-monopoles-decay","title":{"rendered":"Quantum discovery verifies a decades-old theory on how monopoles decay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-discovery-verifies-a-decades-old-theory-on-how-monopoles-decay2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The field of quantum physics is rife with paths leading to tantalizing new areas of study, but one rabbit hole offers a unique vantage point into a world where particles behave differently\u2014through the proverbial looking glass.<\/p>\n<p>Dubbed the \u201cAlice ring\u201d after Lewis Carroll\u2019s world-renowned stories on Alice\u2019s Adventures in Wonderland, the appearance of this object verifies a decades-old theory on how monopoles decay. Specifically, that they decay into a ring-like vortex, where any other monopoles passing through the center are flipped into their opposite magnetic charges.<\/p>\n<p>Published in <i>Nature Communications<\/i> on August 29, these findings mark the latest discovery in a string of work that has spanned the collaborative careers of Aalto University Professor Mikko M\u00f6tt\u00f6nen and Amherst College Professor David Hall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The field of quantum physics is rife with paths leading to tantalizing new areas of study, but one rabbit hole offers a unique vantage point into a world where particles behave differently\u2014through the proverbial looking glass. Dubbed the \u201cAlice ring\u201d after Lewis Carroll\u2019s world-renowned stories on Alice\u2019s Adventures in Wonderland, the appearance of this object [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}