Visualizing domain wall and reverse domain superconductivity

M. Iavarone (), S. A. Moore, J. Fedor, S. T. Ciocys, G. Karapetrov, J. Pearson, V. Novosad and S. D. Bader
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M. Iavarone: Temple University
S. A. Moore: Temple University
J. Fedor: Temple University
S. T. Ciocys: Drexel University
G. Karapetrov: Drexel University
J. Pearson: Argonne National Laboratory
V. Novosad: Argonne National Laboratory
S. D. Bader: Argonne National Laboratory

Nature Communications, 2014, vol. 5, issue 1, 1-7

Abstract: Abstract In magnetically coupled, planar ferromagnet-superconductor (F/S) hybrid structures, magnetic domain walls can be used to spatially confine the superconductivity. In contrast to a superconductor in a uniform applied magnetic field, the nucleation of the superconducting order parameter in F/S structures is governed by the inhomogeneous magnetic field distribution. The interplay between the superconductivity localized at the domain walls and far from the walls leads to effects such as re-entrant superconductivity and reverse domain superconductivity with the critical temperature depending upon the location. Here we use scanning tunnelling spectroscopy to directly image the nucleation of superconductivity at the domain wall in F/S structures realized with Co-Pd multilayers and Pb thin films. Our results demonstrate that such F/S structures are attractive model systems that offer the possibility to control the strength and the location of the superconducting nucleus by applying an external magnetic field, potentially useful to guide vortices for computing application.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5766

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