2 papers
physics.app-ph2020
Chip-based superconducting traps for levitation of micrometer-sized particles in the Meissner state
Martí Gutierrez Latorre, Joachim Hofer, Matthias Rudolph +1
We present a detailed analysis of two chip-based superconducting trap architectures capable of levitating micrometer-sized superconducting particles in the Meissner state. These ar…
cond-mat.supr-con2018
Analytic solutions to the Maxwell-London equations and levitation force for a superconducting sphere in a quadrupole field
Joachim Hofer, Markus Aspelmeyer
Recent proposals suggest using magnetically trapped superconducting spheres in the Meissner state to create low-loss mechanical oscillators with long coherence times. In these prop…