Zero Magnetic Field From a Superconducting Balloon
JUN 01, 1968
DOI: 10.1063/1.3035008
William Fairbank, William Hamilton and their collaborators at Stanford University are building an apparatus to produce a truly zero magnetic field. Since magnetic flux trapped in the hole in a superconducting cylinder is quantized, the Fairbank group expects to produce zero field inside a hollow superconducting shield by cooling the shield through its transition temperature in a field so small that the total flux passing through the shield is less than half a flux unit (less than
© 1968. American Institute of Physics
