Experimental Realization of a Dirac Monopole through the Decay of an Isolated Monopole

We experimentally observe the decay dynamics of deterministically created isolated monopoles in spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensates. As the condensate undergoes a change between magnetic phases, the isolated monopole gradually evolves into a spin configuration hosting a Dirac monopole in its synthetic...

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Main Authors: T. Ollikainen, K. Tiurev, A. Blinova, W. Lee, D. S. Hall, M. Möttönen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2017-05-01
Series:Physical Review X
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.7.021023