Nanoscale assembly of superconducting vortices with scanning tunnelling microscope tip

Jun-Yi Ge; Vladimir N. Gladilin; Jacques Tempere; Cun Xue; Jozef T. Devreese; Joris Van de Vondel; Youhe Zhou; Victor V. Moshchalkov

doi:10.1038/ncomms13880

Nature Communications (Dec 2016)

Nanoscale assembly of superconducting vortices with scanning tunnelling microscope tip

Jun-Yi Ge,
Vladimir N. Gladilin,
Jacques Tempere,
Cun Xue,
Jozef T. Devreese,
Joris Van de Vondel,
Youhe Zhou,
Victor V. Moshchalkov

Affiliations

Jun-Yi Ge: Department of Physics and Astronomy, INPAC–Institute for Nanoscale Physics and Chemistry
Vladimir N. Gladilin: Department of Physics and Astronomy, INPAC–Institute for Nanoscale Physics and Chemistry
Jacques Tempere: Department of Physics, TQC–Theory of Quantum and Complex Systems, Universiteit Antwerpen, Universiteitsplein 1
Cun Xue: Department of Physics and Astronomy, INPAC–Institute for Nanoscale Physics and Chemistry
Jozef T. Devreese: Department of Physics, TQC–Theory of Quantum and Complex Systems, Universiteit Antwerpen, Universiteitsplein 1
Joris Van de Vondel: Department of Physics and Astronomy, INPAC–Institute for Nanoscale Physics and Chemistry
Youhe Zhou: School of Aeronautics, Northwestern Polytechnical University
Victor V. Moshchalkov: Department of Physics and Astronomy, INPAC–Institute for Nanoscale Physics and Chemistry

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13880
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Scanning tunneling microscope (STM) is a powerful tool but local control of superconductivity with the STM tip is still lacking. Here, Geet al. show the use of an STM tip to control the local pinning in a superconductor through the heating effect, allowing to manipulate single superconducting vortex at nanoscale.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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