Nature Communications (Sep 2019)

Local Josephson vortex generation and manipulation with a Magnetic Force Microscope

  • Viacheslav V. Dremov,
  • Sergey Yu. Grebenchuk,
  • Andrey G. Shishkin,
  • Denis S. Baranov,
  • Razmik A. Hovhannisyan,
  • Olga V. Skryabina,
  • Nickolay Lebedev,
  • Igor A. Golovchanskiy,
  • Vladimir I. Chichkov,
  • Christophe Brun,
  • Tristan Cren,
  • Vladimir M. Krasnov,
  • Alexander A. Golubov,
  • Dimitri Roditchev,
  • Vasily S. Stolyarov

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11924-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Josephson vortices (JVs) play an important role in superconducting quantum devices, but they remain difficult to be observed and manipulated. Here, Dremov et al. report magnetic fingerprint of JVs in magnetic force microscopy experiments, which paves a way to generate and control JVs.