Light-induced Meissner effect in optically driven YBa2Cu3O6.48 (IMAGE)

Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter

Light-induced Meissner effect in optically driven YBa2Cu3O6.48

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Mid-infrared laser pulses coherently drive atomic modes in YBa2Cu3O6.48 and stabilize superconducting fluctuations at high temperature. This quantum coherence leads to the ultrafast expulsion of a static magnetic field.

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S. Fava / J. Harms, MPSD

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