Long Josephson Tunnel Junctions with Doubly Connected Electrodes

Details Long Josephson Tunnel Junctions with Doubly Connected Electrodes Long Josephson Tunnel Junctions with Doubly Connected Electrodes

2011-12-06

arxiv.org/abs/1112.1265v3

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

34 pages, 9 figures, Phys. Rev. B April 2012

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In order to mimic the phase changes in the primordial Big Bang, several "cosmological" solid-state experiments have been conceived, during the last decade, to investigate the spontaneous symmetry breaking in superconductors and superfluids cooled through their transition temperature. In one of such experiments the number of magnetic flux quanta spontaneously trapped in a superconducting loop was measured by means of a long Josephson tunnel junction built on top of the loop itself. We have analyzed this system and found a number of interesting features not occurring in the conventional case with simply connected electrodes. In particular, the fluxoid quantization results in a frustration of the Josephson phase, which, in turn, reduces the junction critical current. Further, the possible stable states of the system are obtained by a self-consistent application of the principle of minimum energy.

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