Steering of vortices by magnetic-field tilting in superconductor nanotubes

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Hauptverfasser: Bogush, Igor, Dobrovolskiy, Oleksandr V., Fomin, Vladimir M.
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author Bogush, Igor
Dobrovolskiy, Oleksandr V.
Fomin, Vladimir M.
author_facet Bogush, Igor
Dobrovolskiy, Oleksandr V.
Fomin, Vladimir M.
contents In planar superconductor thin films, the places of nucleation and arrangements of moving vortices are determined by structural defects. However, various applications of superconductors require reconfigurable steering of fluxons, which is hard to realize with geometrically predefined vortex pinning landscapes. Here, on the basis of the time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau equation, we present an approach for steering of vortex chains and vortex jets in superconductor nanotubes containing a slit. The idea is based on tilting of the magnetic field $\mathbf{B}$ at an angle $α$ in the plane perpendicular to the axis of a nanotube carrying an azimuthal transport current. Namely, while at $α=0^\circ$ vortices move paraxially in opposite directions within each half-tube, an increase of $α$ displaces the areas with the close-to-maximum normal component $|B_\mathrm{n}|$ to the close(opposite)-to-slit regions, giving rise to descending (ascending) branches in the induced-voltage frequency spectrum $f_\mathrm{U}(α)$. At lower $B$, upon reaching the critical angle $α_\mathrm{c}$, close-to-slit vortex chains disappear, yielding $f_\mathrm{U}$ of the $nf_1$-type ($n\geq1$: an integer; $f_1$: vortex nucleation frequency). At higher $B$, $f_\mathrm{U}$ is largely blurry because of multifurcations of vortex trajectories, leading to the coexistence of a vortex jet with two vortex chains at $α=90^\circ$. In addition to prospects for tuning of GHz-frequency spectra and steering of vortices as information bits, our findings lay foundations for on-demand tuning of vortex arrangements in 3D superconductor membranes in tilted magnetic fields.
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spellingShingle Steering of vortices by magnetic-field tilting in superconductor nanotubes
Bogush, Igor
Dobrovolskiy, Oleksandr V.
Fomin, Vladimir M.
Superconductivity
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
In planar superconductor thin films, the places of nucleation and arrangements of moving vortices are determined by structural defects. However, various applications of superconductors require reconfigurable steering of fluxons, which is hard to realize with geometrically predefined vortex pinning landscapes. Here, on the basis of the time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau equation, we present an approach for steering of vortex chains and vortex jets in superconductor nanotubes containing a slit. The idea is based on tilting of the magnetic field $\mathbf{B}$ at an angle $α$ in the plane perpendicular to the axis of a nanotube carrying an azimuthal transport current. Namely, while at $α=0^\circ$ vortices move paraxially in opposite directions within each half-tube, an increase of $α$ displaces the areas with the close-to-maximum normal component $|B_\mathrm{n}|$ to the close(opposite)-to-slit regions, giving rise to descending (ascending) branches in the induced-voltage frequency spectrum $f_\mathrm{U}(α)$. At lower $B$, upon reaching the critical angle $α_\mathrm{c}$, close-to-slit vortex chains disappear, yielding $f_\mathrm{U}$ of the $nf_1$-type ($n\geq1$: an integer; $f_1$: vortex nucleation frequency). At higher $B$, $f_\mathrm{U}$ is largely blurry because of multifurcations of vortex trajectories, leading to the coexistence of a vortex jet with two vortex chains at $α=90^\circ$. In addition to prospects for tuning of GHz-frequency spectra and steering of vortices as information bits, our findings lay foundations for on-demand tuning of vortex arrangements in 3D superconductor membranes in tilted magnetic fields.
title Steering of vortices by magnetic-field tilting in superconductor nanotubes
topic Superconductivity
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.00712