Figure 6.

First critical current density normalised to $J_{DP}=0.385J_{GL}$ as a function of the applied magnetic field normalised to $H_{c2}$ for a SN of width $w=12\xi$, which was obtained by using the TDGL approach. Vertical red lines mark the transition to one-, two- and three-vortex-row states with magnetic fields of $H/H_{c2}$ = 0.09, 0.23 and 0.42, respectively. The insets illustrate the vortex row configurations with the selected magnetic fields (marked by open dots) for a sourced current density just below the critical one.