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We study depinning of vortex chains in channels formed by static, disordered vortex arrays. Depinning is governed either by the barrier for defect nucleation or for defect motion, depending on whether the chain periodicity is commensurate…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-08-16 R. Besseling , T. Dröse , V. M. Vinokur , P. H. Kes

Vortex rings are critical for thrust production underwater. In the ocean, self-propelled mesozooplankton generate vortices while swimming within a weakly stratified fluid. While large-scale biogenic transport has been observed during…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-04-12 Yunxing Su , Monica M. Wilhelmus , Roberto Zenit

Phase locking experiments on vortex based spin transfer oscillators with an external microwave current are performed. We present clear evidence of phase locking, frequency pulling, as well as fractional synchronization in this system, with…

The movement of magnetic flux quanta (Abrikosov vortices) in superconductors leads to dissipation and is influenced by various ordering effects arising from vortex-vortex, vortex-defect, and vortex-edge interactions. Under combined dc and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-03-11 Igor Bogush , Vladimir M. Fomin , Oleksandr V. Dobrovolskiy

With increasing applied current we show that the moving vortex lattice changes its structure from a triangular one to a set of parallel vortex rows in a pinning free superconductor. This effect originates from the change of the shape of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 D. Y. Vodolazov , F. M. Peeters

The controlled motion of objects through narrow channels is important in many fields. We have fabricated asymmetric weak-pinning channels in a superconducting thin-film strip for controlling the dynamics of vortices. The lack of pinning…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-06-18 K. Yu , T. W. Heitmann , C. Song , M. P. DeFeo , B. L. T. Plourde , M. B. S. Hesselberth , P. H. Kes

Using numerical simulations, we examine a simple model of two or more coupled one-dimensional channels of driven particles with repulsive interactions in the presence of quenched disorder. We find that this model exhibits a remarkably rich…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-28 C. Reichhardt , C. J. Olson Reichhardt

Dynamic ordering of driven vortex matter has been investigated in the peak effect regime of both amorphous MoGe films and 2H-NbSe2 crystals by mode locking (ML) and dc transport measurements. ML features allow us to trace how the shear…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-06-15 N. Kokubo , T. Asada , K. Kadowaki , K. Takita , 1 T. G. Sorop , P. H. Kes

We show that the drift-diffusion mechanism in a normal-metal layer in combination with the resonance electron-magnon interactions at ferromagnet-normal interface of F-N-F heterostucture creates spatial instability modes and, out of these…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2009-11-11 Pavel Levin

The orientation and deformation of moving vortex lattices in the flux-flow state have been investigated in amorphous superconducting NbGe thin films. Employing a mode-locking technique, we detect how moving lattices deform and their…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-16 Nobuhito Kokubo , Tetsuya Yoshimura , Bunjyu Shinozaki

Ferromagnetic channels subject to spin injection at one extremum sustain long-range coherent textures that carry spin currents known as dissipative exchange flows (DEFs). In the weak injection regime, spin currents carried by DEFs decay…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-11 Ezio Iacocca

We numerically examine the manipulation of vortices interacting with a moving trap representing a magnetic force tip translating across a superconducting sample containing a periodic array of pinning sites. As a function of the tip velocity…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-07-04 X. Ma , C. J. O. Reichhardt , C. Reichhardt

The electron transport in current-biased superconducting nano-bridges is determined by the motion of the quantum vortex confined in the internal disorder landscape. Here we consider a simple case of a single or two neighbouring linear…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-08-21 Sergei Kozlov , Jérôme Lesueur , Dimitri Roditchev , Cheryl Feuillet-Palma

We examine pinning and dynamics of Abrikosov vortices interacting with pinning centers placed in a moir\'e pattern for varied moir\'e lattice angles. We find a series of magic angles at which the critical current shows a pronounced dip…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-04-23 Wenzhao Li , C. J. O. Reichhardt , B. Jankó , C. Reichhardt

Lattice vibration modes are collective excitations in periodic arrays of atoms or molecules. These modes determine novel transport properties in solid crystals. Analogously, in periodical arrangements of magnetic vortex-state disks,…

In magnetic superconductors a moving vortex lattice is accompanied by an ac magnetic field which leads to the generation of spin waves. At resonance conditions the dynamics of vortices in magnetic superconductors changes drastically,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 L. N. Bulaevskii , M. Hruška , M. P. Maley

A field theoretical method is developed which permits us to study the dynamics of vortices in disordered environments. In particular, we obtain a self-consistent system of equations for disorder averaged quantities. Making use of a…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 J. Müllers , A. Schmid

We investigated configurational changes in mesoscopic vortex matter with less than thousand vortices during flux penetration in freestanding 50 $\mu$m diameter disks of Bi$_{2}$Sr$_{2}$CaCu$_{2}$O$_{8 +\delta}$. High-resolution AC and DC…

Phase locking dynamics of dipolarly coupled vortices excited by spin-polarized current in two identical nanopillars is studied as a function of the interpillar distance L. Numerical study and analytical model have proved the remarkable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-16 A. D. Belanovsky , N. Locatelli , P. N. Skirdkov , F. Abreu Araujo , J. Grollier , K. A. Zvezdin , V. Cros , A. K. Zvezdin

For a vortex lattice moving in a periodic array we show analytically and numerically that a new type of phase locking occurs in the presence of a longitudinal dc driving force and a transverse ac driving force. This phase locking is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Charles Reichhardt , Alejandro B. Kolton , Daniel Dominguez , Niels Gronbech-Jensen