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 …

Superconducting vortex pinning with artificial magnetic nanostructures

M Vélez, JI Martin, JE Villegas, A Hoffmann… - Journal of Magnetism …, 2008 - Elsevier
This review is dedicated to summarizing the recent research on vortex dynamics and
pinning effects in superconducting films with artificial magnetic structures. The fabrication of …

Complex dynamical flow phases and pinning in superconductors with rectangular pinning arrays

C Reichhardt, GT Zimányi, N Grønbech-Jensen - Physical Review B, 2001 - APS
We examine vortex pinning and dynamics in thin-film superconductors containing
logarithmically interacting Pearl vortices moving through square and rectangular pinning …

Vortex dynamics, pinning, and angle-dependent motion on moiré patterns

W Li, CJO Reichhardt, B Jankó, C Reichhardt - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
We examine the pinning and dynamics of Abrikosov vortices interacting with pinning centers
placed in a moiré pattern for varied moiré lattice angles. We find a series of locking angles at …

Disorder, critical currents, and vortex pinning energies in isovalently substituted BaFe(AsP)

S Demirdiş, Y Fasano, S Kasahara, T Terashima… - Physical Review B, 2013 - APS
We present a comprehensive overview of vortex pinning in single crystals of the isovalently
substituted iron-based superconductor BaFe 2 (As 1− x P x) 2, a material that qualifies as an …

Hysteresis and fractional matching in thin Nb films with rectangular arrays of nanoscaled magnetic dots

OM Stoll, MI Montero, J Guimpel, JJ Åkerman… - Physical Review B, 2002 - APS
We have investigated the periodic pinning of magnetic flux quanta in thin Nb films with
rectangular arrays of magnetic dots. In this type of pinning geometry, a change in the …

First-order phase transition from the vortex liquid to an amorphous solid

M Menghini, Y Fasano, F de La Cruz, SS Banerjee… - Physical review …, 2003 - APS
We present a systematic study of the topology of the vortex solid phase in superconducting B
i 2 S r 2 C a C u 2 O 8 samples with low doses of columnar defects. A new state of vortex …

Magnetic-decoration imaging of structural transitions induced in vortex matter

Y Fasano, M Menghini - Superconductor Science and …, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
During the last two decades, vortex structural transitions in type-II superconductors have
been the subject of a considerable amount of theoretical and experimental studies. This …

Commensurability and stability in nonperiodic systems

Y Fasano, M De Seta, M Menghini… - Proceedings of the …, 2005 - National Acad Sciences
We have investigated the response of 3D Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8 vortex structures to a weak
perturbation induced by 2D Fe pinning structures acting on one extremity of vortex lines. The …

Chaos and residual correlations in pinned disordered systems

P Le Doussal - Physical review letters, 2006 - APS
We study, using functional renormalization, two copies of an elastic system pinned by
mutually correlated random potentials. Short scale decorrelation depends on a nontrivial …