Nucleation of superconductivity and vortex matter in superconductor–ferromagnet hybrids

AY Aladyshkin, AV Silhanek, W Gillijns… - Superconductor …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
The theoretical and experimental results concerning the thermodynamical and low-
frequency transport properties of hybrid structures, consisting of spatially separated …

The Promise of Soft‐Matter‐Enabled Quantum Materials

RP Thedford, F Yu, WRT Tait, K Shastri… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The field of quantum materials has experienced rapid growth over the past decade, driven
by exciting new discoveries with immense transformative potential. Traditional synthetic …

Vortex fusion and giant vortex states in confined superconducting condensates

T Cren, L Serrier-Garcia, F Debontridder, D Roditchev - Physical review letters, 2011 - APS
In a direct scanning tunneling spectroscopy experiment we address the problem of the
quantum vortex phases in strongly confined superconductors. The strong confinement …

Creating artificial ice states using vortices in nanostructured superconductors

A Libál, CJO Reichhardt, C Reichhardt - Physical review letters, 2009 - APS
We demonstrate that it is possible to realize vortex ice states that are analogous to square
and kagome ice. With numerical simulations, we show that the system can be brought into a …

Superconductivity and quantum oscillations in crystalline Bi nanowire

M Tian, J Wang, Q Zhang, N Kumar, TE Mallouk… - Nano …, 2009 - ACS Publications
While bulk bismuth (Bi) is a semimetal, we have found clear evidence of superconductivity in
72 nm diameter crystalline Bi nanowire below 1.3 K. In a parallel magnetic field (H), the …

Modulated solitons, soliton and vortex clusters in purely nonlinear defocusing media

L Zeng, J Zeng - Annals of Physics, 2020 - Elsevier
By means of standard Thomas–Fermi approximation, we present stable solutions of one-and
two-dimensional (1D and 2D) multihump soliton structures, including 1D and 2D modulated …

Magnetic flux pinning in superconductors with hyperbolic-tessellation arrays of pinning sites

VR Misko, F Nori - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and Materials …, 2012 - APS
We study magnetic flux interacting with arrays of pinning sites (APSs) placed on vertices of
hyperbolic tessellations (HTs). We show that, due to the gradient in the density of pinning …

Geometric frustration in polygons of polariton condensates creating vortices of varying topological charge

T Cookson, K Kalinin, H Sigurdsson, JD Töpfer… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Vorticity is a key ingredient to a broad variety of fluid phenomena, and its quantised version
is considered to be the hallmark of superfluidity. Circulating flows that correspond to vortices …

Nanosized pinning centers in the rare earth-barium-copper-oxide thin-film superconductors

F Antončík, O Jankovský, T Hlásek, V Bartůněk - Nanomaterials, 2020 - mdpi.com
Since the discovery of high-temperature superconductivity, significant progress in the
fabrication of REBCO-based (Rare Earth Barium Copper mixed Oxides) thin-films …

Scanning SQUID microscope study of vortex polygons and shells in weak-pinning disks of an amorphous superconducting film

N Kokubo, S Okayasu, A Kanda, B Shinozaki - Physical Review B …, 2010 - APS
Direct observation of vortices by the scanning superconducting quantum interference device
microscopy was made on large mesoscopic disks of an amorphous MoGe thin film. Owing to …