Modelling magnetically-levitated superconducting ellipsoids, cylinders and cuboids for quantum magnetomechanics
arXiv:2404.05710 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevResearch.6.043046
Abstract
We theoretically investigate the properties of magnetically-levitated superconducting rotors confined in anti-Helmholtz traps, for application in magnetomechanical experiments. We study both the translational modes and a librational mode. The librational mode gives an additional degree of freedom that levitated spheres do not have access to. We compare rotors of different shapes: ellipsoids, cylinders and cuboids. We find that the stable orientations of the rotors depend on the rotors' aspect ratios.
arXiv comment17 pages, 6 figures
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