Abstract
The torque on a superconductor in a magnetic field has been thought to be dominated by trapped flux or sample shape effects, but it has recently been suggested that an anisotropic type-II material should experience an intrinsic torque for . The predicted phenomenon results from a transverse magnetization of the Abrikosov lattice. Measurements are presented on copper-oxide superconductors which delineate the experimental regime in which extrinsic effects are negligible and confirm the existence of the predicted intrinsic torque.
- Received 6 July 1988
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.61.2805
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