{"id":191115,"date":"2024-06-12T22:23:35","date_gmt":"2024-06-13T03:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/researchers-unveil-the-dynamical-nature-of-emergent-magnetic-monopoles-in-real-magnets-for-the-first-time"},"modified":"2024-06-12T22:23:35","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T03:23:35","slug":"researchers-unveil-the-dynamical-nature-of-emergent-magnetic-monopoles-in-real-magnets-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/researchers-unveil-the-dynamical-nature-of-emergent-magnetic-monopoles-in-real-magnets-for-the-first-time","title":{"rendered":"Researchers unveil the dynamical nature of emergent magnetic monopoles in real magnets for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-unveil-the-dynamical-nature-of-emergent-magnetic-monopoles-in-real-magnets-for-the-first-time3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Recently, researchers discovered that a material called manganese germanide (MnGe) has a unique periodic structure, formed by special magnetic configurations called hedgehogs and antihedgehogs, which is called a magnetic <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/hedgehog\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">hedgehog<\/a> lattice.<\/p>\n<p>In these special configurations, the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/magnetic+moments\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">magnetic moments<\/a> point radially outward (hedgehog) or inward (antihedgehog), resembling the spines of a hedgehog. These hedgehogs and antihedgehogs act like <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/magnetic+monopoles\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">magnetic monopoles<\/a> and antimonopoles, serving as sources or sinks of emergent magnetic fields.<\/p>\n<p>MnGe exhibits what is known as a triple-Q hedgehog lattice. However, recent experiments have shown that the substitution of Ge with Si (MnSi<sub>1-x <\/sub>Ge<sub>x<\/sub>) transforms the arrangement into the quadruple-Q hedgehog lattice (4Q-HL).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, researchers discovered that a material called manganese germanide (MnGe) has a unique periodic structure, formed by special magnetic configurations called hedgehogs and antihedgehogs, which is called a magnetic hedgehog lattice. In these special configurations, the magnetic moments point radially outward (hedgehog) or inward (antihedgehog), resembling the spines of a hedgehog. These hedgehogs and antihedgehogs [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191115","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}