Vortex-Antivortex Lattices in Superconducting Films with Magnetic Pinning Arrays
Vortex-Antivortex Lattices in Superconducting Films with Magnetic Pinning Arrays
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DOI:
10.1103/physrevlett.93.267006
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发表时间:
2004-12
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2
通讯作者:
M. Milošević;F. Peeters
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作者:
M. Milošević;F. Peeters
No HeadingWe found a rich variety of vortex structures when a thin superconducting film (SC) is covered with a lattice of out-of-plane magnetized magnetic dots (MDs). The vortices are confined to the MD regions, and antivortices nucleate into regular lattices which relax through several second order transitions towards single-dot vortex-antivortex configurations with increasing period of the magnetic array. Creation of vortex-antivortex pairs with increasing MD-magnetization is controlled by a single quantity - the superfluid velocity. We demonstrate that due to the vortex-antivortex pairs and the supercurrents induced by the MDs, the critical current in the sample actually increases if exposed to a homogeneous external magnetic field, contrary to conventional SC behavior. We explain further experimental implications, such as the magnetic field-induced-superconductivity.