In realistic situations, a typical scenario for applications of type II superconductors
necessarily includes vortices, usually in the presence of currents. Under these …

Recent theoretical analysis of spatially-nonuniform modes of the thermomagnetic instability
in superconductors [Phys. Rev. B 70, 224502 (2004)] is generalized to the case of a thin film …

We report a detailed comparison of experimental data and theoretical predictions for the
dendritic flux instability, believed to be a generic behavior of type-II superconducting films. It …

A common property of topological systems is the appearance of topologically protected zero-
energy excitations. In a superconductor or superfluid, such states set the critical velocity of …

We develop a fast numerical procedure for the analysis of nonlinear and nonlocal
electrodynamics of type-II superconducting films in transverse magnetic fields coupled with …

A graded distribution of antidots in superconducting a-Mo 79 Ge 21 thin films has been
investigated by magnetization and magneto-optical imaging measurements. The pinning …

Stability of the vortex matter—magnetic flux lines penetrating into the material—in type-II
superconductor films is crucially important for their application. If some vortices get detached …

The morphology of abrupt bursts of magnetic flux into superconducting films with engineered
periodic pinning centers (antidots) has been investigated. Guided flux avalanches of …

Mesoscale order can lead to emergent properties including phononic bandgaps or
topologically protected states. Block copolymers offer a route to mesoscale periodic …

In this paper, the anisotropic flux avalanche processes in thin square-shaped type-II
superconducting films are numerically investigated by solving the coupled nonlinear …