Symmetry-induced giant vortex state in a superconducting Pb film with a fivefold penrose array of magnetic pinning centers

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 103, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Kramer, R B G ^a   Silhanek, A V ^a   Van De Vondel, J ^a   Raes, B ^a   Moshchalkov, V V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIRECT VISUALIZATION; FLUX DISTRIBUTIONS; FLUX QUANTA; LOCAL FIELD DISTRIBUTION; MAGNETIC PINNING; PB FILM; PINNING SITES; SCANNING HALL PROBES; STABLE VORTEX; VORTEX PATTERN; VORTEX STATE; VORTEX STRUCTURES;

BUILDING MATERIALS; COBALT; LEAD; LEAD ALLOYS; SUPERCONDUCTING MAGNETS; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 68849127112     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.067007     Document Type: Article

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