Controlling magnetic flux penetration in low-T C superconducting films and hybrids

F Colauto, M Motta, WA Ortiz - Superconductor Science and …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
In realistic situations, a typical scenario for applications of type II superconductors
necessarily includes vortices, usually in the presence of currents. Under these …

[HTML][HTML] Suppression of flux avalanches in YBCO superconducting thin films by coating metal investigated using magneto-optical imaging

Q Ran, Z **g, L Shen, J Zhou, C Liu, Z Zhang, X Zhang - Superconductivity, 2024 - Elsevier
Flux avalanches, prevalently existing in superconducting thin films, can cause catastrophic
breakdowns of electromagnetic properties and even irreversible damage to …

Dendritic and uniform flux jumps in superconducting films

DV Denisov, AL Rakhmanov, DV Shantsev… - Physical Review B …, 2006 - APS
Recent theoretical analysis of spatially-nonuniform modes of the thermomagnetic instability
in superconductors [Phys. Rev. B 70, 224502 (2004)] is generalized to the case of a thin film …

Onset of dendritic flux avalanches in superconducting films

DV Denisov, DV Shantsev, YM Galperin, EM Choi… - Physical review …, 2006 - APS
We report a detailed comparison of experimental data and theoretical predictions for the
dendritic flux instability, believed to be a generic behavior of type-II superconducting films. It …

Exceeding the Landau speed limit with topological Bogoliubov Fermi surfaces

S Autti, JT Mäkinen, J Rysti, GE Volovik… - Physical Review …, 2020 - APS
A common property of topological systems is the appearance of topologically protected zero-
energy excitations. In a superconductor or superfluid, such states set the critical velocity of …

Dynamics and morphology of dendritic flux avalanches in superconducting films

JI Vestgården, DV Shantsev, YM Galperin… - Physical Review B …, 2011 - APS
We develop a fast numerical procedure for the analysis of nonlinear and nonlocal
electrodynamics of type-II superconducting films in transverse magnetic fields coupled with …

Enhanced pinning in superconducting thin films with graded pinning landscapes

M Motta, F Colauto, WA Ortiz, J Fritzsche… - Applied physics …, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
A graded distribution of antidots in superconducting a-Mo 79 Ge 21 thin films has been
investigated by magnetization and magneto-optical imaging measurements. The pinning …

Nucleation and propagation of thermomagnetic avalanches in thin-film superconductors

JI Vestgården, TH Johansen, YM Galperin - Low Temperature Physics, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
A very important feature of superconductors is the Meissner and Ochsenfeld effect—
expulsion of weak external magnetic fields, H, from their interior. Therefore, a …

Catastrophic magnetic flux avalanches in NbTiN superconducting resonators

L Nulens, N Lejeune, J Caeyers, S Marinković… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Macroscopic superconducting components are an important building block of various
quantum circuits. Since several of the envisioned applications require exposure to magnetic …

Controllable morphology of flux avalanches in microstructured superconductors

M Motta, F Colauto, JI Vestgården, J Fritzsche… - Physical Review B, 2014 - APS
The morphology of abrupt bursts of magnetic flux into superconducting films with engineered
periodic pinning centers (antidots) has been investigated. Guided flux avalanches of …