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This indicates that, even though they are not ubiquitous contrary to electrons, it is possible to get them as excitations above a background. In this report, we show that phonons or lattice shear strain generate topological monopoles in some low-dimensional quantum antiferromagnets. For the Heisenberg ladder, phonons are found to generate topological monopoles with nonzero density due to quantum spin fluctuations. For the four-leg Heisenberg tube, longitudinal shear stress generates topological monopoles with density proportional to the strain deformation. The present theory is based on mapping the spin degrees of freedom onto spinless fermions using the generalized Jordan\u2013Wigner transformation in dimensions higher than one. The effective magnetic field generated by the motion of the spinless fermions has nonzero divergence when phonons or shear stress are present. 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