Ferromagnet superconductor hybrids
Abstract
The new class of phenomena described in this review is based on the interaction between spatially separated, but closely located ferromagnets and superconductors, the so-called ferromagnet superconductor hybrids (FSH). Typical FSH are: coupled uniform and textured ferromagnetic and superconducting films, magnetic dots over a superconducting film, magnetic nanowires in a superconducting matrix, etc. The interaction is provided by the magnetic field generated by magnetic textures and supercurrents. The magnetic flux from magnetic structures or topological defects can pin vortices or create them, changing the transport properties and transition temperature of the superconductor. On the other hand, the magnetic field from supercurrents (vortices) strongly interacts with the magnetic subsystem, leading to formation of coupled magnetic superconducting topological defects.
- Publication:
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Advances in Physics
- Pub Date:
- February 2005
- DOI:
- 10.1080/00018730500057536
- arXiv:
- arXiv:cond-mat/0409137
- Bibcode:
- 2005AdPhy..54...67L
- Keywords:
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- Condensed Matter - Materials Science;
- Condensed Matter - Superconductivity
- E-Print:
- 68 pages, submited to Advances of Physics