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Comment on "Ferromagnetic film on a superconducting substrate"
A superconducting substrate is not able to shrink drastically domains in a
ferromagnetic film, contrary to the prediction of Bulaevskii and Chudnovsky
[Phys. Rev. B, 63, issue1 (2001)]. This is shown on the basis of the exact
solution for the stripe domain structure.Comment: 8 pages, 1 figure, the version published in Phys. Rev.
Motion of vortices in ferromagnetic spin-1 BEC
The paper investigates dynamics of nonsingular vortices in a ferromagnetic
spin-1 BEC, where spin and mass superfluidity coexist in the presence of
uniaxial anisotropy (linear and quadratic Zeeman effect). The analysis is based
on hydrodynamics following from the Gross-Pitaevskii theory. Cores of
nonsingular vortices are skyrmions with charge, which is tuned by uniaxial
anisotropy and can have any fractal value between 0 and 1. There are
circulations of mass and spin currents around these vortices. The results are
compared with the equation of vortex motion derived earlier in the
Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert theory for magnetic vortices in easy-plane
ferromagnetic insulators. In the both cases the transverse gyrotropic force
(analog of the Magnus force in superfluid and classical hydrodynamics) is
proportional to the charge of skyrmions in vortex cores.Comment: 19 pages, 2 figures, to be published in the special issue of Fizika
Nizkikh Temperatur dedicated to A.M.Kosevich. arXiv admin note: substantial
text overlap with arXiv:1801.0109
Dynamics of coreless vortices and rotation-induced dissipation peak in superfluid films on rotating porous substrates
We analyze dynamics of 3D coreless vortices in superfluid films covering
porous substrates. The 3D vortex dynamics is derived from the 2D dynamics of
the film. The motion of a 3D vortex is a sequence of jumps between neighboring
substrate cells, which can be described, nevertheless, in terms of
quasi-continuous motion with average vortex velocity. The vortex velocity is
derived from the dissociation rate of vortex-antivortex pairs in a 2D film,
which was developed in the past on the basis of the Kosterlitz-Thouless theory.
The theory explains the rotation-induced dissipation peak in torsion-oscillator
experiments on He films on rotating porous substrates and can be used in
the analysis of other phenomena related to vortex motion in films on porous
substrates.Comment: 8 pages, 3 figures submitted to Phys. Rev.
Vapor condensation on a turbulent liquid interface
An experimental investigation which seeks the fundamental relationship between the interfacial condensation rate and the parameters which control it when the liquid side is turbulent is discussed. The scaling laws for free-surface condensation are discussed for this case. It is argued that the condensation of cryogenic liquids can, in principle, be simulated in experiments using steam and water. Data are presented for the condensation rate in terms of the dimensionless scaling parameters which involve the fluid properties and the liquid-side turbulence velocity and length scales
Surface spin waves in superconducting and insulating ferromagnets
Surface magnetization waves are studied on a semi-infinite magnetic medium in
the perpendicular geometry. Both superconducting and insulating ferromagnets
are considered. Exchange and dipole energies are taken into account, as well as
retardation effects. At large wave vectors, the spectrum for a superconductor
and insulator is the same, though for the former the branch is terminated much
earlier than for the latter due to excitation of plasmons. At small wave
vectors, the surface wave is more robust in the superconductor since it is
separated from the bulk continuum by a finite gap.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figure
Ground State and Tkachenko Modes of a Rapidly Rotating Bose-Einstein Condensate in the Lowest Landau Level State
The Letter considers the ground state and the Tkachenko modes for a rapidly
rotating Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC), when its macroscopic wave function is
a coherent superposition of states analogous to the lowest Landau levels of a
charge in a magnetic field. As well as in type II superconductors close to the
critical magnetic field , this corresponds to a periodic vortex
lattice. The exact value of the shear elastic modulus of the vortex lattice,
which was known from the old works on type II superconductors, essentially
exceeds the values calculated recently for BEC. This is important for
comparison with observation of the Tkachenko mode in the rapidly rotating BEC.Comment: 5 pages, 1 figure; discussion edited, references added, numerical
factors and typos correcte
Comment on "Domain Structure in a Superconducting Ferromagnet"
According to Faure and Buzdin [Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 187202 (2005)], in a
superconducting ferromagnet a domain structure with a period small compared
with the London penetration depth can arise. They claim that this contradicts
to the conclusion of Sonin [Phys. Rev. B, 66, 100504 (2002)] that ferromagnetic
domain structure in the Meissner state of a superconducting ferromagnet is
absent in equilibrium. This contradiction is imaginary, based on
misinterpretation of the results of these two papers.Comment: 1 page, no figures, final version published in Phys.Rev.Let
Domain wall superconductivity in superconductor/ferromagnet bilayers
We analyze the enhancement of the superconducting critical temperature of
superconducting/ferromagnetic bilayers due to the appearance of localized
superconducting states in the vicinity of magnetic domain walls in the
ferromagnet. We consider the case when the main mechanism of the
superconductivity destruction via the proximity effect is the exchange field.
We demonstrate that the influence of the domain walls on the superconducting
properties of the bilayer may be quite strong if the domain wall thickness is
of the order of superconducting coherence length.Comment: 8 pages, 2 figure
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