Direct observation of Josephson vortex cores

Nature Physics

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 332-337

  Roditchev, Dimitri ^a,b   Brun, Christophe ^a   Serrier Garcia, Lise ^a   Cuevas, Juan Carlos ^c   Bessa, Vagner Henrique Loiola ^d   Miloševi, Milorad Vlado ^d,e   Debontridder, François ^a   Stolyarov, Vasily ^a   Cren, Tristan ^a  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^c Ciudad Universitaria de Cantoblanco   (Spain)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC FIELDS; QUANTUM COMPUTERS; QUANTUM OPTICS; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES;

DIRECT OBSERVATIONS; JOSEPHSON VORTICES; ON-CHIP INTEGRATION; QUANTUM COMPUTING; QUANTUM INTERFERENCE; QUASIPARTICLES; SUPERCONDUCTING CORRELATIONS; SUPERCONDUCTING LEAD;

VORTEX FLOW;

EID: 84926527659     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys3240     Document Type: Article

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