永磁体辅助下单畴GdBCO超导体和永磁体之间的磁悬浮力研究

通过对永磁体辅助下单畴GdBCO超导体和圆柱形永磁体在液氮温度、零场冷、轴对称情况下磁悬浮力的测量,研究了两种不同组态下辅助永磁体对超导体磁悬浮力特性的影响.实验结果表明,当长方体辅助永磁体水平磁化、且磁极N指向超导体时,超导体的最大磁悬浮力从没有引入辅助永磁体的29.8 N增加到61.5 N,增加为没有引入辅助永磁体时的206%.当长方体辅助永磁体的N极与圆柱形永磁体的N极反平行时,超导体的最大磁悬浮力从没有引入辅助永磁体的29.8 N减小到19.6 N,减小为无辅助永磁体时的65.8%.这些研究结果说明,通过科学合理地设计超导体和永磁体的组合方式,能有效地提高超导体的磁悬浮力.该研究结果对促进超导体的应用具有重要的指导意义. 关键词： 单畴GdBCO 永磁体 磁悬浮力     

Levitation of a superconducting body in the field of N magnetic poles

Advanced magnetic technologies make it possible to create REE-based permanent magnets with a magnetic field sufficient for levitation. In this work, the feasibility of levitation in the field of arbitrarily (discretely or continuously) distributed magnetic poles is analyzed. A magnetic pole simulates a long and thin permanent magnet. The results obtained enable designing a levitator for an arbitrary distribution of magnets. A number of magnetic pole configurations is considered. The range of the levitator’s parameters providing stable equilibrium of the rotor in the magnetic field is found.     

辅助永磁体厚度对单畴GdBCO超导体捕获磁场分布及其磁悬浮力的影响

研究了两种磁悬浮系统组态中圆台形辅助永磁体厚度对高温超导体捕获磁场和超导磁悬浮力的影响。结果表明,圆台形辅助永磁体的下表面和GdBCO超导体上表面同处在一个水平面上,磁化用圆台形辅助永磁体的厚度H从5 mm增加到45 mm时,超导体捕获磁场和磁悬浮力与圆台形辅助永磁体的厚度直接相关。（1）当圆台形辅助永磁体的北极垂直向上且用液氮冷却后移除辅助永磁体时,最大磁悬浮力从21.8 N增大到26.5 N,再减小到22.9 N;（2）当圆台形辅助永磁体的北极垂直向下且用液氮冷却后移除辅助永磁体时,最大磁悬浮力从20.5 N减小到11.9 N ,再增加到20.4 N;（3）两种磁悬浮系统组态中最大磁悬浮力不一致,与零场冷情况下的最大磁悬浮力14.6 N也不同。在超导磁悬浮应用系统设计中,只有科学选择辅助永磁体形状和尺寸,合理设计组合方式,才能获得较强的磁场强度,提高超导磁悬浮力特性,该结果对促进高温超导体的实际应用具有重要的指导作用。     

抗磁性物质磁悬浮可行性分析及实现

从理论和实验上说明石墨、铜等抗磁性的"非磁"物质在磁场中也受到磁场的作用力.实验中尝试了各种不同类型的永磁体序列,并利用4块一组的永磁铁序列产生梯度场,使磁铁表面上方产生可供抗磁性物质悬浮的稳定区域,成功实现了石墨的悬浮.此外,还利用顺磁性溶液及电磁铁实现了氧化铝和硅的悬浮.     

利用法拉第效应进行永磁体磁场二维光学成像

借助于法拉第磁致旋光效应,以ZF6玻璃为磁旋光介质,设计了适当的光学系统,对永磁体磁极附近磁场的分布进行了光学二维成像.利用自编的图像采集软件采集了一系列原始图片,并利用自编的图像处理软件对这些原始图片进行了处理,完成了检偏过程.分别得到了透射成像方式和反射成像方式下永磁体磁场的分布图像,这些图像正确反映了永磁体磁场的实际分布.本研究工作为宏观尺度磁场的观测与测量提供了一种有效的手段.     

The attenuation of the levitation force of HTS bulk exposed to AC magnetic field on the above NdFeB guideway

In the present High Temperature Superconducting (HTS) maglev vehicle system, the air gaps between the adjacent permanent magnets make the magnetic fields above the NdFeB guideway non-uniform. So it is required to study the characteristics of levitation force of the HTS bulk affected by the non-uniform applied magnetic fields along the moving direction. In this paper, we have studied the characteristics of the levitation force relaxation by an experiment in which AC magnetic field generated by an electromagnet is used to simulate the time-varying magnetic field caused by the inhomogeneity of the NdFeB guideway. From the experiment results, it is found that the levitation force is attenuated with the application of the AC field, and the attenuation is increased with the amplitude of the AC field, but the attenuation is almost independent of the frequency the AC magnetic field.     

空心圆柱形永磁体内径对单畴GdBCO超导块材磁悬浮力的影响

通过对空心圆柱形永磁体与单畴GdBCO超导体磁悬浮力的实验测量,研究了空心圆柱形永磁体内径(d)的变化对超导体磁悬浮力的影响.结果发现,当空心圆柱形永磁体内径从0 mm增加到26 mm时,超导磁悬浮力大小与空心圆柱形永磁体内径有着密切关系(最小测量间距Z=2 mm),所有超导磁悬浮力曲线都存在磁滞现象.随着空心圆柱形永磁体内径的增大,最小间距处超导磁悬浮力逐渐减小,从d=0 mm时的14.8 N减小为d=26 mm时的-0.1 N,d≥20 mm时,最小间距处超导磁悬浮力出现负值;当0 mm≤d5 mm时,超导体最大磁悬浮力出现在最小间距处,d≥5 mm时,超导磁悬浮力先增大后减小,最大超导磁悬浮力产生的位置随着内径的增大而变大.研究表明:只有科学合理地设计永磁体结构参数,才能获得较大的磁场强度,提高超导磁悬浮力特性.该结果对设计并优化磁悬浮轴承系统、环形轨道和超导体的实际应用具有一定的指导意义.     

辅助永磁体的引入方式对单畴GdBCO超导块材磁场分布及其磁悬浮力的影响

通过对永磁体辅助下单畴GdBCO超导体和方形永磁体在液氮温度、 零场冷、 轴对称情况下磁悬浮力的测量, 研究了三种不同组态中辅助永磁体的引入方式对单畴GdBCO超导块材磁场分布及其磁悬浮力的影响. 实验结果表明, 如果处在超导体上方的测量用方形永磁体N极向下, 则在轴对称情况下, 当方形辅助永磁体N极向上与超导体下表面贴在一起时, 超导体的最大磁悬浮力从没有引入辅助永磁体磁化的14.3 N增加到31.8 N, 提高到222%; 当方形辅助永磁体放置在超导体上表面、 N极垂直向上且场冷后去掉辅助永磁体时, 超导体的最大磁悬浮力从没有引入辅助永磁体磁化的14.3 N增加到21.6 N, 增加到151%; 当方形辅助永磁体放置在超导体上表面、 N极垂直向下且场冷后去掉方形辅助永磁体时, 超导体的最大磁悬浮力从没有引入辅助永磁体磁化的14.3 N减小到8.6 N, 减小为无辅助永磁体时的60%.这些结果说明, 只有通过科学合理地设计超导体和永磁体的组合方式, 才能获得较高的磁场强度, 有效地提高超导体的磁悬浮力特性, 该结果对促进超导体的应用具有重要的指导意义.     

高温超导磁悬浮轴承悬浮力数值分析

高温超导磁悬浮轴承已经被广泛应用到飞轮储能系统之中,它的主要结构是由高温超导体和永磁体组成。本论文基于有限元法(FEM)和临界态模型,对高温超导推力轴承的悬浮力和刚度等参数进行模拟仿真,并且在SCML-02测试装置上进行测试,计算结果与测试结果得到很好的吻合。并且进一步对环形永磁体推力轴承进行计算模拟,为进一步的轴承结构参数优化做好基础。     

Magnetic Acceleration of the Levitating Sabot Made of Type-II Superconductors

Creation of a delivery system based on noncontact positioning and transport of the cryogenic fuel targets represents one of the major tasks in a general program of inertial fusion energy (IFE) research. The purpose is to maintain the fuel layer quality during acceleration and injection of IFE targets at the focus of a powerful laser facility or IFE reactor. The program of the Lebedev Physical Institute (LPI) includes much development work on creation of different designs of the hybrid accelerators for IFE target transport with levitation. One of the main directions is an electromagnetic accelerator (EM-AC) + PMG system, where PMG is the permanent magnet guideway. The operational principle is based on quantum levitation of type-II high-temperature superconductors (HTSC) in the magnetic field. At the current stage, conceptual development of “EM-AC + PMG” hybrid accelerator is complete, and proof-of-principle experiments in mutually normal magnetic fields are made. This accelerator is a combination of the acceleration system (field coils generating the traveling magnetic waves) and the levitation system (PMG including a magnetic rail or magnetic track). The results obtained show that the HTSCs can be successfully used to maintain friction-free motion of HTSC sabots over the PMG, and also provide the required stability of the levitation height over the whole acceleration length due to the pinning effect. Additionally, using the driving body from MgB₂ superconducting coils as a sabot component (critical current 5,000 A at magnetic induction 0.25 T) allows one to reach injection velocities of 200 m/s under 400 g at 5 m acceleration length.     

Levitation performance of the magnetized bulk high-Tc superconducting magnet with different trapped fields

To a high-T_c superconducting (HTS) maglev system which needs large levitation force density, the magnetized bulk high-T_c superconductor (HTSC) magnet is a good candidate because it can supply additional repulsive or attractive force above a permanent magnet guideway (PMG). Because the induced supercurrent within a magnetized bulk HTSC is the key parameter for the levitation performance, and it is sensitive to the magnetizing process and field, so the magnetized bulk HTSC magnets with different magnetizing processes had various levitation performances, not only the force magnitude, but also its force relaxation characteristics. Furthermore, the distribution and configuration of the induced supercurrent are also important factor to decide the levitation performance, especially the force relaxation characteristics. This article experimentally investigates the influences of different magnetizing processes and trapped fields on the levitation performance of a magnetized bulk HTSC magnet with smaller size than the magnetic inter-pole distance of PMG, and the obtained results are qualitatively analyzed by the Critical State Model. The test results and analyses of this article are useful for the suitable choice and optimal design of magnetized bulk HTSC magnets.     

垂向磁场变化量对高温超导块材悬浮力特性的影响

高温超导体因其无源自稳定的特性,受到许多学者的重视,具有广阔的应用前景.目前针对高温超导块材悬浮性能的研究主要集中于由永磁体产生的低磁场环境.本文基于超导磁体平台提供的强磁场环境,通过改变高温超导块材不同的场冷高度,实验研究了高温超导块材悬浮力与垂向磁场变化量的关系.研究结果表明随着垂向磁场变化量的增加,高温超导块材的悬浮力增长趋缓,并最终出现悬浮力饱和的现象.本文还对比了YBCO 和Gd-BCO 两种不同材料超导块材的悬浮性能,结果发现GdBCO 的悬浮力在强磁场环境中表现出更大的潜力.这为高温超导磁浮在强磁场中的应用奠定了基础,通过更加合理地调节磁场的分布,可以更好地发挥高温超导块材的悬浮性能潜力     

A magnetically polarized He-Ne laser

The performance of an internal mirror He-Ne laser that has a fraction of its capillary immersed in a strong transverse magnetic field will be described. The field is produced by permanent magnets which are built into the laser's housing. The laser produces a light output which has less than 0.1% of its power in the modes polarized orthogonal to the magnetic field. The attainment of such a high degree of polarization requires that the magnetic field be oriented relative to naturally occuring anisotropies of the laser cavity. Misalignment not only lowers the degree of polarization, but also decreases the laser's output.     

Design of the 10 m AEI prototype facility for interferometry studies

The AEI 10 m prototype interferometer facility is currently being constructed at the Albert Einstein Institute in Hannover, Germany. It aims to perform experiments for future gravitational wave detectors using advanced techniques. Seismically isolated benches are planned to be interferometrically interconnected and stabilized, forming a low-noise testbed inside a 100 m³ ultra-high vacuum system. A well-stabilized high-power laser will perform differential position readout of 100 g test masses in a 10 m suspended arm-cavity enhanced Michelson interferometer at the crossover of measurement (shot) noise and back-action (quantum radiation pressure) noise, the so-called Standard Quantum Limit (SQL). Such a sensitivity enables experiments in the highly topical field of macroscopic quantum mechanics. In this article we introduce the experimental facility and describe the methods employed; technical details of subsystems will be covered in future papers.     

Quantum entanglement in an oscillating macroscopic mirror

In this paper, we revisit the problem of quantum entanglement in an oscillating macroscopic mirror previously studied by Marshall et al. consisting of a modified Michelson interferometer where one of the mirrors is free to oscillate about its center of mass. A photon incident upon the oscillating mirror becomes entangled with the mirror, driving the mirror into a superposition of quantum states. Once the photon and mirror decouple, the mirror returns to its initial state. The purpose of our investigations was to optimize the parameter regime, taking into consideration the current state of technology and the demands imposed by the need to maintain a stable environment in the presence of thermal noise. Optimization should not demand ultra-low temperatures and this is reflected in our results. Our results also show that if the separation between states is maintained at 10^-14 m, the mirror size is reduced, making it easier to induce superposition in the mirror. The critical nature of mirror reflectivity and its connection to cavity decay rate was also revealed by our investigations. The results obtained through our investigations could be useful in quantum error correction, where decoherence negatively affects the results of computations performed by quantum computers. Finally, we note that we are only concerned with an isolated system, where no losses to the external environment occur and any decoherence that occurs within the system remains internal to the system; that is, any mention of decoherence refers specifically to recoverable decoherence.     

超导悬浮系统中电磁力的有限元分析

利用超导体宏观电磁场的Bean模型和有限元方法对由超导体和超导悬浮线圈所组成的悬浮系统进行了分析计算,通过定量计算与模拟,得到了超导体感应的屏蔽电流分布,从而得到了悬浮间隙及悬浮线圈中的电流对悬浮力的影响规律,同时分析了悬浮线圈尺寸与最大悬浮力之间的关系。这些数值计算结果为优化超导悬浮系统的结构设计提供了理论依据。     

Cover Picture: Contrib. Plasma Phys. 6/2011

Images of fireballs on positively biased electrodes. (a) One‐sided fireball in an unmagnetized Ar plasma. (b) Spherical fireball concentric with small gridded electrode, B=0. (c) Fireball to a gridded electrode in the diverging magnetic field of a permanent magnet. (d) Neon fireball to a gridded electrode in the center of a mirror magnetic field between two permanent magnets. (e) Asymmetric fireball in a cusp magnetic field between two opposing permanent magnets. (f) Fireball elongated along the radial magnetic field lines of a cuspfield topology. Figure 3 of the paper by R.L. Stenzel et al (© 2011 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Using a Laguerre-Gaussian beam to trap and cool the rotational motion of a mirror

We show theoretically that it is possible to trap and cool the rotational motion of a macroscopic mirror made of a perfectly reflecting spiral phase element using orbital angular momentum transfer from a Laguerre-Gaussian optical field. This technique offers a promising route to the placement of the rotor in its quantum mechanical ground state in the presence of thermal noise. It also opens up the possibility of simultaneously cooling a vibrational mode of the same mirror. Lastly, the proposed design may serve as a sensitive torsional balance in the quantum regime.     

基于磁滞效应的YBCO块材磁刚度测试方法

处于外磁场中的高温超导块材具有自稳定性。这种特性使得高温超导块材在磁悬浮轴承、飞轮储能、磁悬浮列车等方面,具有潜在的应用价值。非理想高温超导体具有很强的磁通钉扎特性,表现出很强的磁滞性。处于悬浮状态的高稳超导体,其稳定特性与其悬浮刚度密不可分。文中首先描述了高温超导块材磁悬浮测试系统磁刚度测试原理。此刚度测试方法充分考虑了非理想高温超导块材磁滞效应对磁刚度的影响。基于这种测试方法,研究了YBCO块材在永磁轨道上方悬浮力刚度的特性。通过与传统刚度测试方法比较,这种方法更能反应高温超导磁悬浮车实际磁刚度特性。     

永磁体外部磁场的不均匀性研究

从永磁体的分子电流观点、退磁场、工艺等出发, 以矩形永磁体为例, 从理论上分析了影响永磁体外部磁场不均匀性的各种因素.研究结果表明, 永磁体外部磁场宏观不均匀性(好场区均匀度和面积相对大小) 和空间距离及永磁体的外形设计密切相关. 退磁场对永磁体外部磁场微观不均匀性有着复杂影响. 永磁体工艺如粉末颗粒、取向度、烧结凝固、机械加工等将影响永磁体外部磁场的不均匀性, 如磁化偏角、对称性、光滑性等. 关键词： 永磁体 外部磁场 不均匀性 退磁场