Transition from synchronous to asynchronous superfluid phase slippage in an aperture array

Details Transition from synchronous to asynchronous superfluid phase slippage in an aperture array Transition from synchronous to asynchronous superfluid phase slippage in an aperture array

2006-05-26

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0605660v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

10 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.74.144502

We have investigated the dynamics of superfluid phase slippage in an array of apertures. The magnitude of the dissipative phase slips shows that they occur simultaneously in all the apertures when the temperature is around 10 mK below the superfluid transition, and subsequently lose their simultaneity as the temperature is lowered. We find that when periodic synchronous phase slippage occurs, the synchronicity exists from the very first phase slip, and therefore is not due to mode locking of interacting oscillators. When the system is allowed to relax freely from a given initial energy, the total number of phase slips that occur and the energy left in the system after the last phase slip depends reproducibly on the initial energy. We find the energy remaining after the final phase slip is a periodic function of the initial system energy. This dependence directly reveals the discrete and dissipative nature of the phase slips and is a powerful diagnostic for investigation of synchronicity in the array. When the array slips synchronously, this periodic energy function is a sharp sawtooth. As the temperature is lowered and the degree of synchronicity drops, the peak of this sawtooth becomes rounded, suggesting a broadening of the time interval over which the array slips. The underlying mechanism for the higher temperature synchronous behavior and the following loss of synchronicity at lower temperatures is not yet understood. We discuss the implications of our measurements and pose several questions that need to be resolved by a theory explaining the synchronous behavior in this quantum system. An understanding of the array phase slip process is essential to the optimization of superfluid `dc-SQUID' gyroscopes and interferometers.

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