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Researchers create conveyer belt for magnetic flux vortices in superconductors If blown up in size, it would not have a chance in the car factory, but the microscopic conveyer belt built by Simon Bending's team in the Department of Physics at the University of Bath and collaborators in Japan and the USA, could just be the next big thing for improving devices relying on the elusive properties of superconductors (Nature Materials, Advanced Online Publication March 12 2006). It's not your standard rubber band on cylinders though - it moves in an erratic way, a quick jolt to the left, a smooth slide to the right. Who would want to be on such a thing?
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