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year 2014
author(s) Khaymovich, I.M., Mel'nikov, A.S. and Buzdin, A.I.
title Phase transitions in the domain structure of ferromagnetic superconductors
document type Paper
source Physical Review B, 89, 094524 (2014)
doi 10.1103/PhysRevB.89.094524
EMP/Horizon2020 This publication does not include a EMP/Horizon2020 acknowledgement.
abstract

Starting from the London-type model, we study the domain structures in ferromagnetic superconductors taking account of the nucleation of vortices and antivortices coupled to the magnetic texture. We predict that the coupling between domains and vortices results in the formation of two energetically favorable domain configurations: (i) a Meissner-type vortex-free configuration with strong domain shrinking and (ii) a more rare domain configuration with a dense vortex-antivortex lattice. The switching between these configurations is shown to result in the first-order phase transitions which could be observable in superconducting uranium-based compounds.