Figure 2.

Equilibrium vortex row phase diagram that plots the SN’s width (in units of $\xi$) as a function of the intensity of the applied magnetic field (in units of $H_{c2})$ for different numbers of formed vortex rows (n). The simulations were performed using the SGL approach with periodic boundary conditions along the length, with a unit cell length of $L=32\xi$. The dashed lines denote the threshold for the formation of an additional vortex row (shown here up to $n=5$). The coloured regions represent the approximated regions for $n>1$, which are delimited by solid lines given by the expression $H_{row}/H_{c2}$ = $\frac{\pi n^2{\xi }^2}{\sqrt{3}{w}^2}$. The circles, which are labelled a–h, relate to the vortex configurations shown in Figure 3. The black dotted line corresponds to the analytical expression $H_0/H_{c2}=K\frac{{\pi }^2{\xi }^2}{2w^2}$ [44], with $K=1.7$ [45].