Influence of short-range artificial defects in a macroscopic flat disk on the Abrikosov state

Abstract

We study the vortex configuration in a superconducting macroscopic flat disk with central defects in the presence of a uniform applied magnetic field. Owing to the defects nature on the thin disk, vortices are able to form geometry induced, quasi-symmetric configurations of disk, triangle and concentric shells in the rest of the disk. The theoretical study made on this mesoscopic systems allows us to trace not only how the vortex pattern evolves with magnetic field, but also how the defect can be used to show the pinning and anti-pinning effect. The magnetic induction, vortex number, magnetization and Cooper pairs density as a function of the external magnetic field are calculated, we show that in our sample novels vortex configurations are possible due to the size of the disk and if the hole or barrier defect is considered.