schematic perspective view of another embodiment of a magnetic bearing 300 here an additional reluctance transducer is provided blocking the rotor 301 in a further direction the z direction the magnetic bearing 300 includes two coils 310 311 wherein the ends 303 304 of the first coil 310 face to a direction the x direction that is different from the direction i e the z direction to which the ends 323 324 of the second coil 311 face in the shown embodiment the facing directions are transverse with respect to each other however in principle also other directions are possible e g a tilted direction further the transducer 300 comprises two pairs of permanent magnetic elements 340 a 340 b 341 a 341 b see fig1 the permanent magnets of each individual pair being arranged opposite to each other near the first and second slot respectively of corresponding coil ends and magnetically oriented opposite to each other in conformity with the above described principle the magnetic bearing 300 shown in fig1 has a dual character blocking movement of the rotor 301 in two directions i e in the x direction and in the z direction in principle a further dual magnetic bearing can be applied to the rotor 301 blocking two further degrees of freedom in terms of location and or orientation in addition a further single magnetic bearing can be added to the structure e g.