{"id":94773,"date":"2019-08-14T12:25:02","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T19:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/breakthrough-in-understanding-of-magnetic-monopoles-could-signal-new-technologies"},"modified":"2019-08-14T12:25:02","modified_gmt":"2019-08-14T19:25:02","slug":"breakthrough-in-understanding-of-magnetic-monopoles-could-signal-new-technologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/breakthrough-in-understanding-of-magnetic-monopoles-could-signal-new-technologies","title":{"rendered":"Breakthrough in understanding of magnetic monopoles could signal new technologies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/breakthrough-in-understanding-of-magnetic-monopoles-could-signal-new-technologies.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A breakthrough in understanding how the quasi-particles known as magnetic monopoles behave could lead to the development of new technologies to replace electric charges.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the University of Kent applied a combination of quantum and classic physics to investigate how magnetic atoms interact with each other to form composite objects known as \u2018magnetic monopoles\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Basing the study on materials known as Spin Ices, the team showed how the \u2018hop\u2019 of a monopole from one site in the crystal lattice of Spin Ice to the next can be achieved by flipping the direction of a single magnetic atom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A breakthrough in understanding how the quasi-particles known as magnetic monopoles behave could lead to the development of new technologies to replace electric charges. Researchers at the University of Kent applied a combination of quantum and classic physics to investigate how magnetic atoms interact with each other to form composite objects known as \u2018magnetic monopoles\u2019. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94773","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\/94773","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}