Quantum Printing

For centuries, printing has evolved from simple ink transfers to intricate techniques that influence both industry and art. But imagine a leap beyond conventional methods—imagine harnessing the very quantum properties of light to shape and control materials at the quantum level. 

Experience a new kind of phase transition. We use a time-dependent Ginzburg–Landau model to show that light alone can drive a non-equilibrium vortex BKT transition in a superconductor, freeing vortex–antivortex pairs without any help from thermal fluctuations.