Magnet Levitated Over a High-Temperature Superconductor (IMAGE)

American Institute of Physics

Magnet Levitated Over a High-Temperature Superconductor

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This image of a magnet levitated over a high-temperature superconductor array shows rectangular TFMs (black) levitating a heavy ferromagnet (silver) above a container of liquid nitrogen.

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Weinstein/University of Houston

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