TRANSFORMER CONFIGURATION IN 3-DIMENSIONAL JOSEPHSON LATTICES AT ZERO MAGNETIC-FIELD

被引:13
作者
DOMINGUEZ, D [1 ]
GRONBECHJENSEN, N [1 ]
BISHOP, AR [1 ]
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[1] INT CTR THEORET PHYS,I-34100 TRIESTE,ITALY
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.75.717
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
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Recent experiments on Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8-y superconductors at zero magnetic field have been performed with a transformer configuration of contacts. We interpret the experimental data on the basis of large-scale Langevin dynamical simulations of a three dimensional (3D) Josephson lattice with a current bias through a single plane. We show that the experimentally observed effects can be attributed to linking thermal vortex loop excitations that cause voltages in neighboring superconducting planes to lock in a narrow temperature range near the 3D phase transition.
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