Tunable pinning of a superconducting vortex by a magnetic vortex

Gilson Carneiro

doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.75.094504

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Tunable pinning of a superconducting vortex by a magnetic vortex

Gilson Carneiro

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.75.094504 · Physical Review B

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Abstract

The interaction between a straight vortex line in a superconducting film and a soft magnetic nanodisk in the magnetic vortex state in the presence of a magnetic field applied parallel to the film surfaces is studied theoretically. The superconductor is described by London theory [G. Carneiro, Phys. Rev. B 69, 214504 (2004)] and the nanodisk by the Landau-Lifshitz continuum theory of magnetism [L. Landau and E. Lifshitz, Phys. Z. Sowjetunion 8, 153 (1935); Collected Papers of L. D. Landau (Gordon and Breach, New York, 1967), p. 101], using the approximation known as the rigid vortex model. Pinning of the vortex line by the nanodisk is found to result, predominantly, from the interaction between the vortex line and the changes in the nanodisk magnetization induced by the magnetic field of the vortex line and applied field. In the context of the rigid vortex model, these changes result from the displacement of the magnetic vortex. This displacement is calculated analytically by minimizing the energy, and the pinning potential is obtained. The applied field can tune the pinning potential by controlling the displacement of the magnetic vortex. The nanodisk magnetization curve is predicted to change in the presence of the vortex line.