| Issue |
Europhys. Lett.
Volume 74, Number 1, April 2006
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|---|---|---|
| Page(s) | 151 - 155 | |
| Section | Condensed matter: electronic structure, electrical, magnetic, and optical properties | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2005-10496-0 | |
| Published online | 22 February 2006 | |
The break-up of the vortex structure in a mesoscopic wire containing a constriction
1
Departement Fysica, Universiteit Antwerpen - Groenenborgerlaan 171 B-2020 Antwerpen, Belgium
2
Institute for Physics of Microstructures, Russian Academy of Sciences 603950 Nizhny Novgorod, GSP-105, Russia
Received:
8
November
2005
Accepted:
2
February
2006
Within the nonlinear Ginzburg-Landau theory, we study the superconducting state in a mesoscopic wire containing a narrow constriction in the presence of a uniform magnetic field directed along the wire. If the narrow region is small enough so that no vortices can penetrate through it, curved vortices are formed, i.e. they enter at the top of the sample (the widest part) and exit near the constriction. At high magnetic fields a giant vortex is nucleated in the widest part of the wire which breaks up into a smaller giant and/or individual vortices near the constriction.
PACS: 74.25.-q – Properties of type I and type II superconductors / 74.25.Qt – Vortex lattices, flux pinning, flux creep / 74.78.-w – Superconducting films and low-dimensional structures
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