Amherst College Professor David Hall and Team Observe Quantum-Mechanical Monopoles
Thursday, April 30, 2015 - 13:31
in Physics & Chemistry
Amherst College professor David S. Hall and a team of collaborators have experimentally identified a pointlike monopole in a quantum field for the first time. The discovery gives scientists insight into the monopole magnet, an elementary particle that they believe exists but have not yet seen.