Nature Communications (Jul 2018)

Tunable and switchable magnetic dipole patterns in nanostructured superconductors

  • Jun-Yi Ge,
  • Vladimir N. Gladilin,
  • Jacques Tempere,
  • Jozef T. Devreese,
  • Victor V. Moshchalkov

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05045-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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By designing superconducting materials the behavior of supercurrents can be controlled to give different emergent behavior. Ge et al. fabricate superconducting films in which currents form geometrically frustrated magnetic dipoles that can be tuned further by coupling to a vortex lattice.