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Magnetic dipole-vortex interaction in a bilayer superconductor/soft-magnet heterostructure

Superconductivity 2009-11-11 v1

Abstract

We study the penetration of the nonuniform magnetic field, created by a magnetic dipole with out-of-plane magnetization, into a film heterostructure composed of a type-II superconductor layer and a soft-magnet layer. In the framework of the London approach, the energy of the magnetic dipole-vortex interaction is derived and the critical value of the dipole moment for the first appearance of a vortex in the superconducting constituent is found for two cases of the layer ordering, namely when the dipole is located near the superconducting or, respectively, the magnetic constituent.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0510251,
  title  = {Magnetic dipole-vortex interaction in a bilayer superconductor/soft-magnet heterostructure},
  author = {S. V. Yampolskii and G. I. Yampolskaya},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0510251},
  year   = {2009}
}

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5 pages, 4 figures, revtex4