IPI Letters

The Magnetic Monopole and the Aharonov-Bohm Effect

Rodney Bartlett

Published May 29, 2025• 0 citations

Abstract

A very interesting comment by Nobel laureate Gerard‘t Hooft is the “discovery that unifying the forces of physics requires the existence of magnetic monopoles”. We examine this proposal through the prism of the Aharonov–Bohm effect.

DOI: 10.59973/ipil.203

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