Nature Communications (Sep 2016)

Optical manipulation of single flux quanta

  • I. S. Veshchunov,
  • W. Magrini,
  • S. V. Mironov,
  • A. G. Godin,
  • J.-B. Trebbia,
  • A. I. Buzdin,
  • Ph. Tamarat,
  • B. Lounis

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12801
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Manipulation of individual superconducting vortices remains challenging and has been demonstrated only in a sophisticated way. Here, Veshchunov et al.realize a fast and precise manipulation of individual vortices using a far-field optical method, providing a simple way towards optical control of Josephson transport.