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Spontaneous spinning of a magnet levitating over a superconductor (2003)

Abstract
A permanent magnet levitating over a superconductor is found to spontaneously spin, overcoming resistance to air friction. We explain the physics behind this remarkable effect.. Comment: See http://physics.ucsd.edu/~jorge/spinning.html for movie clips of the effect

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Download http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0303574
Repository arXiv (United States)
Keywords Condensed Matter - Superconductivity
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