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Little-Parks effect in a superconducting loop with magnetic dot
We have studied the nucleation of superconductivity in a mesoscopic Al loop,
enclosing magnetic dot with perpendicular magnetization. The superconducting
phase boundary Tc(B), determined from transport measurements, is asymmetric
with respect to the polarity of an applied magnetic field. The maximum critical
temperature has been found for a finite applied magnetic field, which is
antiparallel to the magnetization of the dot. Theoretical phase boundary shows
a good agreement with the experimental data.Comment: to be published in Phys. Rev. B - Brief Report
Influence of the sample geometry on the vortex matter in superconducting microstructures
The dependence of the vortex penetration and expulsion on the geometry of
mesoscopic superconductors is reported. Hall magnetometry measurements were
performed on a superconducting Al square and triangle. The stability of the
vortex patterns imposed by the sample geometry is discussed. The
field-temperature diagram has been reconstructed showing the transitions
between states with different vorticity. We have found that the vortex
penetration is only weakly affected by the vortex configuration inside the
sample while the expulsion is strongly controlled by the stability of the
vortex patterns. A qualitative explanation for this observation is given.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev.
Nucleation of superconductivity and vortex matter in hybrid superconductor/ferromagnet nanostructures
Critical temperature oscillations in magnetically coupled superconducting mesoscopic loops
We study the magnetic interaction between two superconducting concentric
mesoscopic Al loops, close to the superconducting/normal phase transition. The
phase boundary is measured resistively for the two-loop structure as well as
for a reference single loop. In both systems Little-Parks oscillations,
periodic in field are observed in the critical temperature Tc versus applied
magnetic field H. In the Fourier spectrum of the Tc(H) oscillations, a weak
'low frequency' response shows up, which can be attributed to the inner loop
supercurrent magnetic coupling to the flux of the outer loop. The amplitude of
this effect can be tuned by varying the applied transport current.Comment: 9 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev.
Identification of cathepsin G in the generation of elastase-resistant fragment of vascular endocan: involvement in the regulation of LFA-1-dependent cascade
Spin states of asteroids in the Eos collisional family
Eos family was created during a catastrophic impact about 1.3 Gyr ago.
Rotation states of individual family members contain information about the
history of the whole population. We aim to increase the number of asteroid
shape models and rotation states within the Eos collision family, as well as to
revise previously published shape models from the literature. Such results can
be used to constrain theoretical collisional and evolution models of the
family, or to estimate other physical parameters by a thermophysical modeling
of the thermal infrared data. We use all available disk-integrated optical data
(i.e., classical dense-in-time photometry obtained from public databases and
through a large collaboration network as well as sparse-in-time individual
measurements from a few sky surveys) as input for the convex inversion method,
and derive 3D shape models of asteroids together with their rotation periods
and orientations of rotation axes. We present updated shape models for 15
asteroids and new shape model determinations for 16 asteroids. Together with
the already published models from the publicly available DAMIT database, we
compiled a sample of 56 Eos family members with known shape models that we used
in our analysis of physical properties within the family. Rotation states of
asteroids smaller than ~20 km are heavily influenced by the YORP effect, whilst
the large objects more or less retained their rotation state properties since
the family creation. Moreover, we also present a shape model and bulk density
of asteroid (423) Diotima, an interloper in the Eos family, based on the
disk-resolved data obtained by the Near InfraRed Camera (Nirc2) mounted on the
W.M. Keck II telescope.Comment: Accepted for publication in ICARUS Special Issue - Asteroids: Origin,
Evolution & Characterizatio
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