Altering the superconductor transition temperature by domain-wall arrangements in hybrid ferromagnet-superconductor structures.
The [Co/Pt]n/Nb/[Co/Pt]n hybrids with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy reveal enhanced superconductivity with the presence, and the arrangements, of domain walls, where superconductivity persists. An in-plane field can manipulate the domain walls from labyrinth to stripe patterns and drive the hybrids from normal to superconducting. We observe anisotropic superconductivity in hybrids with stripe domains, along which enhanced superconductivity is realized.
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Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA.
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Chien
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