Levitation and lateral forces between a point magnetic dipole and a superconducting sphere

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/25/5/058402

Abstract The dipole-dipole interaction model is employed to investigate the angular dependence of the levitation and lateral forces acting on a small magnet in an anti-symmetric magnet/superconducting sphere system. Breaking the symmetry of the system enables us to study the lateral force which is important in the stability of the magnet above a superconducting sphere in the Meissner state. Under the assumption that the lateral displacement of the magnet is small compared to the physical dimensions of our proposed system, analytical expressions are obtained for the levitation and lateral forces as a function of the geometrical parameters of the superconductor as well as the height, the lateral displacement, and the orientation of the magnetic moment of the magnet. The dependence of the levitation force on the height of the levitating magnet is similar to that in the symmetric magnet/superconducting sphere system within the range of proposed lateral displacements. It is found that the levitation force is linearly dependent on the lateral displacement whereas the lateral force is independent of this displacement. A sinusoidal variation of both forces as a function of the polar and azimuthal angles specifying the orientation of the magnetic moment is observed. The relationship between the stability and the orientation of the magnetic moment is discussed for different orientations.

Keywords: lateral and levitation forces Meissner effect dipole-dipole interaction model superconductor

Received: 04 November 2015
Revised: 28 January 2016
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PACS:	84.71.Ba	(Superconducting magnets; magnetic levitation devices)
	74.25.Ha	(Magnetic properties including vortex structures and related phenomena)

Corresponding Authors: H M Al-Khateeb
E-mail: hkhateeb@just.edu.jo

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H M Al-Khateeb, M K Alqadi, F Y Alzoubi, B Albiss, M K Hasan (Qaseer), N Y Ayoub Levitation and lateral forces between a point magnetic dipole and a superconducting sphere 2016 Chin. Phys. B 25 058402

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