Spatial structures of the intermediate state between superconductivity and ferromagnetism
Spatial structures of the intermediate state between superconductivity and ferromagnetism
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超导与铁磁性中间态的空间结构
DOI:
10.3929/ethz-a-000347104
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发表时间:
1985
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P. Stampfli
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作者:
P. Stampfli
Ferromagnetic superconductors are superconducting at low temperatures, but below a certain temperature they become ferromagnetic and the super¬ conductivity breaks down.In an intermediate State coexistence of super¬ conductivity and ferromagnetism is observed.We use a generalized Ginz¬ burg Landau mean field model to describe the superconductivity,the magnetization and their mutual competition. There is an electromagnetic and an exchange interaction between super¬ conductivity and magnetization.The electromagnetic interaction is due to the magnetic field of the ordered magnetic moments which is large enough to destroy superconductivity.Coexistence of superconductivity and magnetization becomes only possible through spatial structure.Only the electro¬ magnetic interaction can be included consistently in the mean field model.The exchange interaction is treated approximately. The electromagnetic interaction has a very nonlocal character and can give rise to very complicated structures.Most theorists have only considered spatial structure in either the magnetization or the supercon¬ ductivity but not in both together.We examine new structures which combine topological structure in both superconductivity and magnetization. They are developed from instabilities of simpler structures as they cannot be found directly.The magnetic anisotropy of the material becomes important.We treat easy axis and easy plane anisotropy separately. To solve the Ginzburg Landau equations is very difficult and numerically instable.Instead.we use for each structure its symmetries to characterize the order parameters and directly search for the minimum of the free energy.This is numerically stable and well defined.We obtain structures which are distinct minima of the free energy. A new alternating vortex lattice structure for materials with easy plane magnetic anisotropy such as ErRh.B. has especially interesting properties.One component of the magnetization is periodically devided into large opposite domains.Each domain contains one row of vortex lines or antivortex lines with opposite polarity.The magnetization does not vanish in the Bloch walls.instead there is a magnetization which is