Magnetic monopoles and unusual transport effects in magnetoelectrics

TL;DR

This paper proposes that magnetoelectric materials with diagonal coupling exhibit monopole-like magnetization distributions around charges, potentially causing unique transport phenomena that can be better understood through magnetic monopole concepts.

Contribution

It introduces the idea that magnetic monopole-like distributions occur in magnetoelectrics with diagonal coupling, linking monopole theory to transport effects in these materials.

Findings

Magnetoelectrics with diagonal coupling exhibit monopole-like magnetization around charges.

Such monopole distributions can lead to unusual transport effects.

The magnetic monopole concept aids in understanding these phenomena.

Abstract

It is argued that in magnetoelectrics with diagonal magnetoelectric coupling there should be a monopole-like distribution of magnetization around electric charge. It may lead to nontrivial transport properties of such materials, to understand which the picture of magnetic monopoles attached to electric charges may be very useful.