Lifting capacities greater than 41 N/cm2 (60 psi) at 77 K have been achieved using a combination of permanent magnets and high quality melt-textured YBa,Cu,O,-s (YBCO). The key concept of this hybrid superconducting magnetic bearing (HSMB) is the use of strong magnetic repulsion and attraction from permanent magnets to support high loads in conjunction with flux pinning in a type II superconduc...

The behavior of vortex pinning induced by the magnetic domain reversal is studied in the ferromagnet/superconductor bilayers in which superconducting film is niobium and the ferromagnetic layers are the Co/Pt superlattices with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy. The local magnetic field across narrow ferromagnet/superconductor bilayer stripe is measured using a line of miniature Hall sensors. T...

Using state-of-the-art analytic techniques for extracting a singularity from a complex field, we can visualize the vortices in the largest time-dependent Ginsburg Landau simulation of a superconductor performed to date. Our visualization reveals the internal dynamics of the vortices in the superconductor, explaining the cause of a voltage spike in the electro-magnetic response of the system. Th...

Double tunneling junctions of ferromagnet-superconductor-ferromagnet electrodes (FSF) show a jump in the conductance when a parallel magnetic field reverses the magnetization of one of the ferromagnetic electrodes. This change is generally attributed to the spin-valve effect or to pair breaking in the superconductor because of spin accumulation. In this paper it is shown that the Meservey-Tedro...

Some remarks are made on how to determine by magneto-optical imaging the electric currents flowing in a superconductor. The inversion problem is discussed how to compute these currents from the magnetic field measured in a planar magneto-optical indicator film positioned close to the conductor. Next, some geometries are listed for which the currents and magnetic fields can be computed from firs...

A serious obstacle impeding the application of lowand hightemperature superconductor devices is the presence of trapped magnetic flux: flux lines or vortices can be induced by fields as small as the Earth’s magnetic field. Once present, vortices dissipate energy and generate internal noise, limiting the operation of numerous superconducting devices. Methods used to overcome this difficulty incl...

We investigated how a 10–50 μm layer from soft ferromagnetic material, incorporated in the architecture of a composite superconducting tape, could influence the capability of the tape to transport electrical current. Numerical procedure was developed to calculate the local distribution of magnetic field and current in the condition when all the superconductor is carrying its critical current de...

We calculate the magnetic polarization tensor of the photon and of the gluons in a two flavor color superconductor with a LOFF pairing that consists of a single plane wave. We show that at zero temperature and within the range of the values of the Fermi sea displacement that favors the LOFF state, all the eigenvalues of the magnetic polarization tensor are non-negative. Therefore the chromomagn...