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The anti-proximity effect, where the superconductivity in superconducting nanowires is suppressed or weakened when contacted by bulk superconducting electrodes, first revealed in arrays of Zn nanowires by tuning the electrodes from the…
A proposed design for radiation shielding in interplanetary travel is presented with primary shielding created by a superconducting split toroid magnetic field and unconfined magnetic fields created by two deployable superconducting loops.…
The superconducting diode effect may exist in bulk systems as well as in junctions when time-reversal and inversion symmetries are simultaneously broken. Magnetization gradients and textures satisfy both requirements and therefore also…
Magnetic current imaging (MCI) is useful for non-destructive characterization of microelectronics, including both security analysis and failure analysis, because magnetic fields penetrate the materials that comprise these components to…
The paper reports the first successful fabrication of MgB2 superconducting tape using a flexible metallic substrate as well as its strong pinning force, which was verified by direct measurement of transport critical current density. The…
Ubiquitous in most superconducting materials and a common result of nanofabrication processes, weak-links are known for their limiting effects on the transport of electric currents. Still, they are at the root of key features of…
Quantitative magneto-optical imaging of a type-II superconductor thin film cooled under zero, homogeneous, and inhomogeneous applied magnetic fields, indicates that the latter procedure leads to an enhancement of the screening capacity.…
We study thin films that host coexisting collinear $d$-wave altermagnetic and superconducting orders in the presence of an external magnetic field that fully penetrates the films. We use the Ginzburg-Landau functional to analyze the…
An electric current generates a magnetic field, and magnetic fields cannot exist in the interior of type I superconductors. As a consequence of these two facts, electric currents can only flow near the surface of a type I superconducting…
Lorentz reciprocity establishes a stringent relation between electromagnetic fields and their sources. For static magnetic fields, a relation between magnetic sources and fields can be drawn in analogy to the Green's reciprocity principle…
Thermo-magnetic instability (TMI) in superconductors is known to destroy the critical state via magnetic flux avalanches, and hence it deteriorates the ability of the superconductors to shield external magnetic field. In this work, we…
Progress in electromagnetic induction imaging with atomic magnetometers has brought its domain to the edge of the regime useful for biomedical imaging. However, a demonstration of imaging below the required 1 Sm$^{-1}$ level is still…
The ac losses in a silver-gold alloy sheathed Bi-2223 tape were measured by the null calorimetric method while a dc current was superimposed onto the ac current. As expected through computer simulations, a Clem valley was observed for the…
We derive a general microscopic expression for the non-linear diamagnetic current in a clean superconductor-insulator-normal metal structure with an arbitrary interface transmission. In the absence of electron-electron interactions in the…
Besides screening-current-induced magnetic fields (SCIF), the shielding effect in high-Tc coated conductors also has an strong influence on its strain distribution in a coil winding, especially during high-field operations. To demonstrate…
We consider a thin superconducting film with randomly magnetized dots on top of it. The dots produce a disordered pinning potential for vortices in the film. We show that for dots with permanent and random magnetization normal or parallel…
Superconducting circuits are a promising platform for implementing fault-tolerant quantum computers, quantum limited amplifiers, ultra-low power superconducting electronics, and sensors with ultimate sensitivity. Typically, circuit…
Superconducting magnet training is one of the accelerator related issues attracting attention due to significant operational costs and time budget associated to it. It is especially worrisome that magnets based on the next-generation Nb3Sn…
Electrical current-induced deterministic magnetization switching in a magnetic multilayer structure without external magnetic field is realized by utilizing interlayer exchange coupling. Two ferromagnetic Co layers, with in-plane and…
Magnetic levitation of superconductors is a promising platform to study quantum mechanics in the large-mass limit. One major limitation is the weak trapping potential, which results in low vibrational eigenfrequencies and increased…