Encoding Magnetic States in Monopole-Like Configurations Using Superconducting Dots

Adv Sci (Weinh). 2016 Sep 14;3(11):1600207. doi: 10.1002/advs.201600207. eCollection 2016 Nov.

Abstract

A large manifold of nontrivial spin textures, including the stabilization of monopole-like fields, are generated by using a completely new and versatile approach based on the combination of superconductivity and magnetism. Robust, stable, and easily controllable complex spin structures are encoded, modified, and annihilated in a continuous magnetic thin film by defining a variety of magnetic states in superconducting dots.

Keywords: XMCD PEEM images; micromagnetic simulations; monopolar fields; spin textures; superconductor‐ferromagnetic hybrids.