1303.6184 (Lev N. Bulaevskii et al.)

Polaron-like vortices, dissociation transition and self induced pinning
in magnetic superconductors    [PDF]

Lev N. Bulaevskii, Shi-Zeng Lin

In magnetic superconductors vortices polarize spins nonuniformly and repolarize them when moving. At a low spin relaxation rate and at low bias currents vortices carrying magnetic polarization clouds become polaron-like and their velocities are determined by the effective drag coefficient which is significantly bigger than the Bardeen-Stephen (BS) one. As current increases, vortices release polarization clouds and the velocity as well as the voltage in the I-V characteristics jump to values corresponding to the BS drag coefficient at a critical current $J_c$. The nonuniform components of the magnetic field and magnetization drop as velocity increases resulting in weaker polarization and {\it discontinuous} dynamic dissociation depinning transition. Experimentally the jump shows up as a depinning transition and the corresponding current at the jump is the depinning current. As current decreases, on the way back, vortices are retrapped by polarization clouds at the current $J_rView original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.6184