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SUBMITTER: Kremen A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4789753 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kremen Anna A Wissberg Shai S Haham Noam N Persky Eylon E Frenkel Yiftach Y Kalisky Beena B
Nano letters 20160204 3
Manipulating individual vortices in a deterministic way is challenging; ideally, manipulation should be effective, local, and tunable in strength and location. Here, we show that vortices respond to local mechanical stress applied in the vicinity of the vortex. We utilized this interaction to move individual vortices in thin superconducting films via local mechanical contact without magnetic field or current. We used a scanning superconducting quantum interference device to image vortices and to ...[more]