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Transverse instabilities of multiple vortex chains in magnetically coupled /permalloy superconductor/ferromagnet bilayers
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Using scanning tunneling microscopy and Ginzburg-Landau simulations, we explore vortex configurations in magnetically coupled NbSe2/permalloy superconductor/ferromagnet bilayer. The permalloy film with stripe domain structure induces periodic local magnetic induction in the superconductor, creating a series of pinning-antipinning channels for externally added magnetic flux quanta. Such laterally confined Abrikosov vortices form quasi-one-dimensional arrays (chains). The transitions between multichain states occur through propagation of kinks at the intermediate fields. At high fields we show that the system becomes nonlinear due to a change in both the number of vortices and the confining potential. The longitudinal instabilities of the resulting vortex structures lead to vortices levitating in the antipinning channels. |
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English
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Physical review : B : solid state. - Lancaster, Pa, 1970 - 1978
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Publication
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Lancaster, Pa
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2009
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0556-2805
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DOI
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10.1103/PHYSREVB.80.180506
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80
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(2009)
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000272310900031
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