Home > Research > Publications & Outputs > Chaos in a superconducting saucer.

Associated organisational unit

View graph of relations

Chaos in a superconducting saucer.

Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

Published
Close
<mark>Journal publication date</mark>1990
<mark>Journal</mark>Physica B: Condensed Matter
Issue number1
Volume165-16
Number of pages2
Pages (from-to)117-118
Publication StatusPublished
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

The dynamical behaviour of a very small permanent magnet levitating in a vacuum above a superconducting saucer at 4.2K has been investigated. The arrangement, which constitutes a near-Hamiltonian system, able to undergo both rotational and orbital motions, is found to exhibit a rich variety of behaviours, including chaos. Its relationship to chaotic motion in the solar system is discussed.

Bibliographic note

Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Low Temperature Physics (LT19), Brighton, 16-22 August 1990.