STABILITY OF VORTEX-ANTIVORTEX “MOLECULES” IN MESOSCOPIC SUPERCONDUCTING TRIANGLES

We have revealed thermodynamically stable vortex-antivortex configurations in mesoscopic type I superconducting equilateral triangles. The revealed effect is explained by two factors: (i) vortex confinement in mesoscopic triangles and (ii) appearance of the vortex-antivortex repulsion in mesoscopic type I superconductor triangles in the vicinity of the dual point. The stability of the obtained solutions is examined as a function of material and external parameters – the Ginzburg-Landau parameter κ and temperature – as well as a function of a distortion of the sample’s shape. The vortex-antivortex “molecule” turns out to be stable in a wide range of the parameters that makes it possible its experimental visualization.