Artificial Brownian motors: Controlling transport on the nanoscale

P Hänggi, F Marchesoni - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2009 - APS
In systems possessing spatial or dynamical symmetry breaking, Brownian motion combined
with unbiased external input signals, deterministic and random alike, can assist directed …

Nucleation of superconductivity and vortex matter in superconductor–ferromagnet hybrids

AY Aladyshkin, AV Silhanek, W Gillijns… - Superconductor …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
The theoretical and experimental results concerning the thermodynamical and low-
frequency transport properties of hybrid structures, consisting of spatially separated …

Superconducting diode effect via conformal-mapped nanoholes

YY Lyu, J Jiang, YL Wang, ZL Xiao, S Dong… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
A superconducting diode is an electronic device that conducts supercurrent and exhibits
zero resistance primarily for one direction of applied current. Such a dissipationless diode is …

Superconducting vortex pinning with artificial magnetic nanostructures

M Vélez, JI Martín, JE Villegas, A Hoffmann… - Journal of Magnetism …, 2008 - Elsevier
This review is dedicated to summarizing the recent research on vortex dynamics and
pinning effects in superconducting films with artificial magnetic structures. The fabrication of …

Field-free superconducting diode in a magnetically nanostructured superconductor

J Jiang, MV Milošević, YL Wang, ZL Xiao… - Physical Review …, 2022 - APS
A strong superconducting diode effect (SDE) is revealed in a thin superconducting film
periodically nanostructured with magnetic dots. The SDE is caused by the current-activated …

Switchable geometric frustration in an artificial-spin-ice–superconductor heterosystem

YL Wang, X Ma, J Xu, ZL Xiao, A Snezhko… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Geometric frustration emerges when local interaction energies in an ordered lattice structure
cannot be simultaneously minimized, resulting in a large number of degenerate states. The …

Ferromagnet/superconductor hybridization for magnonic applications

IA Golovchanskiy, NN Abramov… - Advanced functional …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
In this work, a new hybridization of superconducting and ferromagnetic orders is
demonstrated, promising for magnonics. By measuring the ferromagnetic and spin wave …

Braiding Majorana fermions and creating quantum logic gates with vortices on a periodic pinning structure

X Ma, CJO Reichhardt, C Reichhardt - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
We show how vortices that support Majorana fermions when placed on a periodic pinning
array can be used for vortex exchange and independent braiding by performing a series of …

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 …

Mesoscale phase separation of skyrmion-vortex matter in chiral-magnet–superconductor heterostructures

JF Neto, CCS Silva - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
We investigate theoretically the equilibrium configurations of many magnetic skyrmions
interacting with many superconducting vortices in a superconductor–chiral-magnet bilayer …