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Our achievement opens up amazing avenues for quantum
research, says a delighted Dr. Mikko Möttönen from Aalto University.
Researchers at Aalto University and Amherst College have now
created and photographed synthetic magnetic monopoles under laboratory
conditions. These observations lay the foundation for the underlying structure
of the natural magnetic monopole – the detection of which would be a
revolutionary event comparable to the discovery of the electron. The results
were recently published in Nature magazine.