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When an orbital magnetic field suppresses superconductivity, forming periodic vortices in type-II superconductors, subdominant orders can emerge in the vortex cores. Rather than competing with superconductivity, we find that the emergent…
Equilibrium vortex configuration in conventional type II superconductors containing columnar defects is theoretically investigated. Near the upper critical field a single defect causes a strong local deformation of the vortex lattice. This…
Recent experiments on the conductance of thin, narrow superconducting strips have found periodic fluctuations, as a function of the perpendicular magnetic field, with a period corresponding to approximately two flux quanta per strip area…
We show that for a thin superconducting strip placed in a transverse dc magnetic field - the typical geometry of experiments with high-Tc superconductors - the application of a weak ac magnetic field perpendicular to the dc field generates…
In a magnetic field, vortices significantly contribute to the dark counts of single-photon detectors made of superconducting wires, and they are also limiting the critical current of such devices. To address this issue, we prepared…
Nonreciprocal supercurrent refers to the phenomenon where the maximum dissipationless current in a superconductor depends on its direction of flow. This asymmetry underlies the operation of superconducting diodes and is often associated…
We simulate the ordering of vortices and its effects on the critical current in superconductors with varied vortex-vortex interaction strength and varied pinning strengths for a two-dimensional system. For strong pinning the vortex lattice…
We fabricated a current-perpendicular-to-plane pseudo-spin-valve nanopillar comprising a thick and a thin Co rings with deep submicron lateral sizes. The dc current can effectively induce the flux-closure vortex states in the rings with…
Understanding the behaviour of vortices under nanoscale confinement in superconducting circuits is of importance for development of superconducting electronics and quantum technologies. Using numerical simulations based on the…
A dc voltage drop develops along amorphous indium oxide nanowires that are exposed to an ac bias source. This voltage is anti-symmetric with magnetic field and is characterized by sample specific quasi-periodic magneto-voltage oscillations.…
Superconductors can support large dissipation-free electrical currents only if vortex lines are effectively immobilized by material defects. Macroscopic critical currents depend on elemental interactions of vortices with individual pinning…
The electrical transport properties of corner-shaped Al superconducting microstrips have been investigated. We demonstrate that the sharp turns lead to asymmetric vortex dynamics, allowing for easier penetration from the inner concave angle…
We study Josephson effect in a ballistic graphene strip of length $L$ smaller than the superconducting coherence length and arbitrary width $W$. We find that the dependence of the critical supercurrent $I_{c}$ on $W$ is drastically…
The pinning of quantized flux lines, or vortices, in the mixed state is used to quantify the effect of impurities in iron-based superconductors (IBS). Disorder at two length scales is relevant in these materials. Strong flux pinning…
This is an analytical study of pinning and spontaneous vortex phase is a system consisting of a superconducting thin film pierced by a long ferromagnetic columnar defect of finite radius $R$. The magnetic fields, screening currents, energy…
We theoretically predict that the critical current $I_c$ and magnetization $M$ of hybrid superconductor/normal-metal (SN) strip may have nonmonotonous dependence on perpendicular magnetic field - so called peak effect. In contrast to…
In this paper we analyze the properties of a dc SQUID when the London penetration depth \lambda is larger than the superconducting film thickness d. We present equations that govern the static behavior for arbitrary values of \Lambda =…
Recent excitement in observation of non-reciprocal critical current (NRC) is motivated by a suggestion that "superconducting diode effect" may be an intrinsic property of non-centrosymmetric superconductors with strong spin-orbit…
The effect of dipolar interactions among cylindrical nanodots, with a vortex-core magnetic configuration, is analyzed by means of analytical calculations. The cylinders are placed in a N x N square array in two configurations - core…
We report on the impact of the magnetic domain stripe configuration on the critical velocity of vortices in superconducting/ferromagnetic bilayers. Using a 23 nm thick Mo$_2$N film, covered by a 48 nm FePt layer with tunable nanosized…