Counting magnetic flux quanta offers new way to measure photon numbers

The Quick Take
Researchers at AIST have directly observed magnetic flux quanta generated in a superconductor by photon absorption and demonstrated a new principle of photon detection that identifies the number of photons based on the number of these flux quanta.
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