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The effectiveness of magnetic pinning of vortices in a layered system formed by a uniaxial ferromagnet and type II superconductor is considered. It is shown that, irrespective of the saturation magnetization of the ferromagnet, the energy of pinning at the domain structure does not exceed, in order of magnitude, the energy of artificial pinning at a column-type defect. The limitation of pinning energy is caused by the interaction of external vortices with a spontaneous vortex lattice formed in the superconducting film when the magnetization of the ferromagnetic film exceeds the critical value.
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Translated from Fizika Tverdogo Tela, Vol. 43, No. 10, 2001, pp. 1754–1760.
Original Russian Text Copyright © 2001 by Bespyatykh, Wasilevski, Gajdek, Nikitin, Nikitov.
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Bespyatykh, Y.I., Wasilevski, W., Gajdek, M. et al. Pinning of vortices by the domain structure in a two-layered type II superconductor-ferromagnet system. Phys. Solid State 43, 1827–1833 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1410618
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