Magnetic gates and guides for superconducting vortices

Vlasko-Vlasov, V. K.; Colauto, F.; Buzdin, A. I.; Rosenmann, D.; Benseman, T.; Kwok, W. -K.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.95.144504

Magnetic gates and guides for superconducting vortices

Journal Article · Tue Apr 04 00:00:00 EDT 2017 · Physical Review B

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.95.144504· OSTI ID:1352922

Vlasko-Vlasov, V. K. ^[1]; Colauto, F. ^[2]; Buzdin, A. I. ^[3]; Rosenmann, D. ^[1]; Benseman, T. ^[4]; Kwok, W. -K. ^[1]

Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Univ. Federal de Sao Carlos, Sao Paulo (Brazil)
Univ. Bordeaux, Talence Cedex (France)
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Queens College, Queens, NY (United States)

Here, we image the motion of superconducting vortices in niobium film covered with a regular array of thin permalloy stripes. By altering the magnetization orientation in the stripes using a small in-plane magnetic field, we can tune the strength of interactions between vortices and the stripe edges, enabling acceleration or retardation of the superconducting vortices in the sample and consequently introducing strong tunable anisotropy into the vortex dynamics. We discuss our observations in terms of the attraction/repulsion between point magnetic charges carried by vortices and lines of magnetic charges at the stripe edges, and derive analytical formulas for the vortex-magnetic stripes coupling. Our approach demonstrates the analogy between the vortex motion regulated by the magnetic stripe array and electric carrier flow in gated semiconducting devices. Scaling down the geometrical features of the proposed design may enable controlled manipulation of single vortices, paving the way for Abrikosov vortex microcircuits and memories.

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Research Organization:: Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: Materials Sciences and Engineering Division; Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP); USDOE; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-06CH11357

OSTI ID:: 1352922

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1349767

Journal Information:: Physical Review B, Journal Name: Physical Review B Journal Issue: 14 Vol. 95; ISSN 2469-9950; ISSN PRBMDO

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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