Vortex-Antivortex Lattices in Superconducting Films with Magnetic Pinning Arrays

Details Vortex-Antivortex Lattices in Superconducting Films with Magnetic Pinning Arrays Vortex-Antivortex Lattices in Superconducting Films with Magnetic Pinning Arrays

2005-04-25

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0504647v1

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 267006 (2004)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

4 pages, 5 figures, published in Physical Review Letters

Scientific paper

Novel vortex structures are found when a thin superconducting film (SC) is covered with a lattice of out-of-plane magnetized magnetic dots (MDs). The stray magnetic field of the dots confines the vortices to the MD regions, surrounded by antivortices which "crystallize" into regular lattices. First and second order transitions are found as magnetic array is made sparser or MD-magnetization larger. For sparse MD-arrays fractional vortex-antivortex states are formed, where the crystal-symmetry is combined with a non-uniform "charge" distribution. We demonstrate that due to the (anti)vortices and the supercurrents induced by the MDs, the critical current of the sample actually increases if exposed to a homogeneous external magnetic field, contrary to conventional SC behavior.

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