Young Investigator's online workshop, May 10-12, 2021

Invited speakers


Vortex pinning, dynamics and fluxonic devices

Víctor Rouco, Vortex pinning and dynamics in mesoscopic YBCO nanowires

Alina Ionescu, Imaging vortex-antivortex pairs in high-Tc superconductors

Anton Bespalov, Large spectral gap and impurity-induced states in a 2D Abrikosov vortex

Lorenzo Ceccarelli, Dynamics study and imaging of superconducting vortices in MoSi thin films

Barbora Budinská, Edge barrier effects on the flux-flow instability in superconducting MoSi thin films

Igor Bogush, Reduction of the relativistic and non-relativistic GL models to a 2D curved surface


Layered materials and interfacial superconductivity

Beilun Wu, Anisotropic superconductivity in spin-vortex AF superconductor CaK(Fe0.95Ni0.05)4As4

Armando Galluzzi, A precursor mechanism triggering the second magnetization peak phenomenon...

Ondrej Šofranko, Extreme charge transfer in the misfit layered compound (LaSe)1.14(NbSe2)

Roberta Caruso, Probing unconventional phenomena in LaAlO3-SrTiO3 and La2-xSrxCuO4


Superconductors at microwave frequencies

Andrea Alimenti, Microwave vortex motion in superconductors in high magnetic fields

Artur Romanov, Correlation between microstructure and high frequency properties of thick REBCO coated conductors

Daniele Torsello, Interplay between ferromagnetism and superconductivity in EuFe2(As,P)2

Sergey Bunyaev, Whispering gallery resonators for microwave characterization of superconductors

Cheryl Feuillet-Palma, Vortex dynamics in HTS nano-meanders made by ion irradiation

Vasilii Vadimov, Higgs modes in proximized superconducting systems


Proximity effects and spin transport in S/F hybrids

Matthias Althammer, Temperature-dependent spin-transport and current-induced torques in S/F heterostructures

César González-Ruano, Proximity effects in epitaxial F/S hybrids: towards superconducting spintronics with SOI

Sergey Mironov, Electromagnetic proximity effect in S/F heterostructures


Direct-write superconductors and Josephson devices

Rosa Córdoba, Direct-writing of advanced 3D nano-superconductors

Fabrizio Porrati, Nb-C superconductor prepared by focused ion beam induced deposition

Pablo Orus, Superconducting properties of in-plane W-C nanowires grown by He+ FIBID

Kaveh Lahabi, Direct-write printing of Josephson devices in a scanning electron microscope

Jay LeFebvre, Series arrays of planar long Josephson junctions for high-dynamic range magnetic flux detection


Josephson junctions, SQUIDs and related phenomena

Heleen Dausy, The impact of kinetic inductance on the critical current oscillations of nanobridge SQUIDs

Liam Farrar, Superconducting quantum interference in van der Waals heterostructures

Edoardo Trabaldo, Improving the performance of YBCO nanobridges as weak links

Simon Collienne, Nb-based nanoscale SQUIDs tuned by electroannealing

Mathias Wegner, Microwave SQUID Multiplexing

Zhanna Devizorova, Effect of spin-triplet correlations on Josephson transport in structures containing half-metals


Low-dimensional and topological superconductors

Tosson Elalaily, Gate-controlled supercurrent in superconductor shell InAs/Al nanowires

Nicola Poccia, Controlling strong correlations of HTSs with Van der Waals heterostructures

Jonas Bekaert, Boosting superconductivity in 2D materials by beneficial defects

Chuan Li, Quantum devices towards 1D topological superconductivity


Nano-electromechanics and hybrid quantum circuits

Thomas Luschmann, Mechanical frequency control in inductively coupled electromechanical systems

Witlef Wieczorek, Levitation of micrometer-sized superconducting particles using on-chip magnetic traps

Ines Rodrigues, Four-wave-cooling to the single phonon level in Kerr optomechanics

David Zoepfl, Coupling a magneto-mechanical oscillator to a SQUID based cavity

Philip Schmidt, Cavity optomechanics implemented using levitating superconductors and Josephson microwave circuits


Superconducting single-photon detectors

Mariia Sidorova, Vortex-assisted photon counts by a superconducting single-photon detector

Carla Cirillo, Research perspectives on applications of NbRe and NbReN thin films in SNSPDs


Special talks

Andrey Varlamov, Physicist in Gastronomy Universe

Roman Sobolewski, Superconducting single-photon detectors – twenty years

John Notte, Precise helium ion beams for nanoscale fabrication