Physics in Canada / La Physique au Canada - 2011 (67.2)

Superconducting Levitation

Author(s)
Robert W. Hill
Institution
University of Waterloo

Magnets levitating above superconductors have famously portrayed the promise and excitement surrounding superconductivity in the age of high-temperature oxide superconductors.  Here we review the physics that makes this phenomenon possible and some of the applications that are derived from it.