On-Demand Optical Generation of Single Flux Quanta.

Autor:	Rochet A; Université de Bordeaux, LP2N, F-33405 Talence, France.; Institut d'Optique & CNRS, LP2N, F-33405 Talence, France., Vadimov V; Institute for Physics of Microstructures, Russian Academy of Sciences, 603095 Nizhny Novgorod, GSP-105, Russia., Magrini W; Université de Bordeaux, LP2N, F-33405 Talence, France.; Institut d'Optique & CNRS, LP2N, F-33405 Talence, France., Thakur S; Université de Bordeaux, LP2N, F-33405 Talence, France.; Institut d'Optique & CNRS, LP2N, F-33405 Talence, France., Trebbia JB; Université de Bordeaux, LP2N, F-33405 Talence, France.; Institut d'Optique & CNRS, LP2N, F-33405 Talence, France., Melnikov A; Institute for Physics of Microstructures, Russian Academy of Sciences, 603095 Nizhny Novgorod, GSP-105, Russia.; Sirius University of Science and Technology, 1 Olympic Ave, 354340 Sochi, Russia., Buzdin A; University of Bordeaux, LOMA UMR-CNRS 5798, F-33405 Talence, France., Tamarat P; Université de Bordeaux, LP2N, F-33405 Talence, France.; Institut d'Optique & CNRS, LP2N, F-33405 Talence, France., Lounis B; Université de Bordeaux, LP2N, F-33405 Talence, France.; Institut d'Optique & CNRS, LP2N, F-33405 Talence, France.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Nano letters [Nano Lett] 2020 Sep 09; Vol. 20 (9), pp. 6488-6493. Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 Aug 06.
DOI:	10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c02166
Abstrakt:	Superconductors can host quantized magnetic flux tubes surrounded by supercurrents, called Abrikosov vortices. Vortex penetration into a superconducting film is usually limited to its edges and triggered by external magnetic fields or local electrical currents. With a view to novel research directions in quantum computation, the possibility to generate and control single flux quanta in situ is thus challenging. We introduce a far-field optical method to sculpt the magnetic flux or generate permanent single vortices at any desired position in a superconductor. It is based on a fast quench following the absorption of a tightly focused laser pulse that locally heats the superconductor above its critical temperature. We achieve ex-nihilo creation of a single vortex pinned at the center of the hotspot, while its counterpart opposite flux is trapped tens of micrometers away at its boundaries. Our method paves the way to optical operation of Josephson transport with single flux quanta.
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