One-atom-high rails steer superconducting vortices, with temperature and magnetic field tuning their guidance

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Researchers at Japan's National Institute for Materials Science discovered that atomic-scale steps can guide superconducting vortices in an ultrathin superconductor, with the guidance tunable by temperature and magnetic fields. This breakthrough in material science could impact future quantum and superconducting technologies.

Researchers at the Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), a center within Japan's National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), discovered that atomic-scale steps can guide superconducting vortices in an ultrathin superconductor.