Supercooled Superconducting Material Levitates Over a Three Twist Möbius Track at High Speed

Scientists at the Low Temperature Physics Lab at Ithaca College successfully performed a breakthrough experiment in which a supercooled superconductor material levitated above a three twist Mibius strip track while going around at a high speed.

Quantum levitation on a 3 pi Mibius strip track! Watch the superconductor levitate above the track and suspend below the track, without having to go across the edge. Our track is not an "ordinary" Mibius strip with just one twist, but rather a Mibius strip with three twists - 540 degrees, or 3 pi radians, thus, a 3 pi Mibius strip track.

Behind the scenes footage showing how the Mibius track was made.

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