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    Enhancement of vortex pinning in superconductor/ferromagnet bilayers via angled demagnetization

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    We use local and global magnetometry measurements to study the influence of magnetic domain width w on the domain-induced vortex pinning in superconducting/ferromagnetic bilayers, built of a Nb film and a ferromagnetic Co/Pt multilayer with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy, with an insulating layer to eliminate proximity effect. The quasi-periodic domain patterns with different and systematically adjustable width w, as acquired by a special demagnetization procedure, exert tunable vortex pinning on a superconducting layer. The largest enhancement of vortex pinning, by a factor of more than 10, occurs when w ~ 310 nm is close to the magnetic penetration depth.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures, accepted to Phys. Rev. B, Rapid Communication

    Parton Branching in Color Mutation Model

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    The soft production problem in hadronic collisions as described in the eikonal color mutation branching model is improved in the way that the initial parton distribution is treated. Furry branching of the partons is considered as a means of describing the nonperturbative process of parton reproduction in soft interaction. The values of all the moments, and CqC_q, for q=2,...,5, as well as their energy dependences can be correctly determined by the use of only two parameters.Comment: 8 pages (LaTeX) + 2 figures (ps files), submitted to Phys. Rev.

    Tuning Vortex Confinement by Magnetic Domains in a Superconductor/Ferromagnet Bilayer

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    We use a line of miniature Hall sensors to study the effect of magnetic-domain-induced vortex confinement on the flux dynamics in a superconductor/ferromagnet bilayer. A single tunable bilayer is built of a ferromagnetic Co/Pt multilayer with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy and a superconducting Nb layer, with the insulating layer in-between to avoid the proximity effect. The magnetic-domain patterns of various geometries are reversibly predefined in the Co/Pt multilayer using the appropriate magnetization procedure. The magnetic-domain geometry strongly affects vortex dynamics, leading to geometry-dependent trapping of vortices at the sample edge, nonuniform flux penetration, and strongly nonuniform critical current density. With the decreasing temperature, the magnetic pinning increases, but this increase is substantially weaker than that of the intrinsic pinning. The analysis of the initial flux penetration suggests that vortices may form various vortex structures, including disordered Abrikosov lattice or single and double vortex chains, in which minimal vortex-vortex distance is comparable to the magnetic penetration depth

    Tuning Vortex Confinement by Magnetic Domains in a Superconductor/Ferromagnet Bilayer

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    We use a line of miniature Hall sensors to study the effect of magnetic-domain-induced vortex confinement on the flux dynamics in a superconductor/ferromagnet bilayer. A single tunable bilayer is built of a ferromagnetic Co/Pt multilayer with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy and a superconducting Nb layer, with the insulating layer in-between to avoid the proximity effect. The magnetic-domain patterns of various geometries are reversibly predefined in the Co/Pt multilayer using the appropriate magnetization procedure. The magnetic-domain geometry strongly affects vortex dynamics, leading to geometry-dependent trapping of vortices at the sample edge, nonuniform flux penetration, and strongly nonuniform critical current density. With the decreasing temperature, the magnetic pinning increases, but this increase is substantially weaker than that of the intrinsic pinning. The analysis of the initial flux penetration suggests that vortices may form various vortex structures, including disordered Abrikosov lattice or single and double vortex chains, in which minimal vortex-vortex distance is comparable to the magnetic penetration depth

    Fermi level dependence of magnetism and magnetotransport in the magnetic topological insulators Bi2_{2}Te3_{3} and BiSbTe3_{3} containing self-organized MnBi2_{2}Te4_{4} septuple layers

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    The magnetic coupling mechanisms underlying ferromagnetism and magnetotransport phenomena in magnetically doped topological insulators have been a central issue to gain controlled access to the magneto-topological phenomena such as quantum anomalous Hall effect and topological axion insulating state. Here, we focus on the role of bulk carriers in magnetism of the family of magnetic topological insulators, in which the host material is either Bi2_{2}Te3_{3} or BiSbTe3_{3}, containing Mn self-organized in MnBi2_{2}Te4_{4} septuple layers. We tune the Fermi level using the electron irradiation technique and study how magnetic properties vary only through the change in carrier density. Ferromagnetic resonance spectroscopy excludes bulk magnetism based on a carrier-mediated process. Furthermore, the magnetotransport measurements show that the anomalous Hall effect is dominated by the intrinsic and dissipationless Berry-phase driven mechanism, with the Hall resistivity enhanced near the bottom/top of the conduction/valence band, due to the Berry curvature which is concentrated near the avoided band crossings. These results demonstrate that the anomalous Hall effect can be effectively managed, maximized, or turned off, by adjusting the Fermi level.Comment: 11 pages, 7 figure

    Generalized Relativistic Meson Wave Function

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    We study the most general, relativistic, constituent qqq{\overline q} meson wave function within a new covariant framework. We find that by including a tensor wave function component, a pure valence quark model is now capable of reproducing not only all static pion data (fπf_\pi, rπ2\langle r_\pi^2 \rangle) but also the distribution amplitude, form factor (Fπ(Q2))(F_\pi(Q^2)), and structure functions. Further, our generalized spin wave function provides a much better detailed description of meson properties than models using a simple relativistic extension of the S=L=0S=L=0 nonrelativistic wave function.Comment: 17 pages, REXTeX 3.0 file, (uuencoded postscript files of 8 figures appended

    A Color Mutation Model of Soft Interaction in High Energy Hadronic Collisions

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    A comprehensive model, called ECOMB, is proposed to describe multiparticle production by soft interaction. It incorporates the eikonal formalism, parton model, color mutation, branching and recombination. The physics is conceptually opposite to the dynamics that underlies the fragmentation of a string. The partons are present initially in a hadronic collision; they form a single, large, color-neutral cluster until color mutation of the quarks leads to a fission of the cluster into two color-neutral subclusters. The mutation and branching processes continue until only qqˉq\bar q pairs are left in each small cluster. The model contains self-similar dynamics and exhibits scaling behavior in the factorial moments. It can satisfactorily reproduce the intermittency data that no other model has been able to fit.Comment: 24 pages including 11 figures in revtex epsf styl
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