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

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What happened

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.

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  • Reported by Phys.org and published Thu, 24 Sep 2026 19:00:01 UTC.

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