We demonstrate a unique prospect for inducing anisotropic vortex pinning and manipulating the directional motion of vortices using the stripe domain patterns of a uniaxial magnetic film in a the superconducting/ferromagnetic hybrid. Our observations can be described by a model, which considers interactions between magnetic charges of vortices and surface magnetic charges of domains resulting in the enhanced pinning of vortices on domain walls.
@article{arxiv.0705.0555,
title = {Guiding superconducting vortices by magnetic domain walls},
author = {V. Vlasko-Vlasov and U. Welp and G. Karapetrov and V. Novosad and A. Belkin and D. Rosenmann and M. Iavarone and W. -K. Kwok},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0705.0555},
year = {2009}
}