Defect Motion and Lattice Pinning Barrier in Josephson-Junction Ladders

Details Defect Motion and Lattice Pinning Barrier in Josephson-Junction Ladders Defect Motion and Lattice Pinning Barrier in Josephson-Junction Ladders

2005-12-05

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0512081v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

7 pages, and to apear in Phys. Rev. B

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.73.014504

We study motion of domain wall defects in a fully frustrated Josephson-unction ladder system, driven by small applied currents. For small system sizes, the energy barrier E_B to the defect motion is computed analytically via symmetry and topological considerations. More generally, we perform numerical simulations directly on the equations of motion, based on the resistively-shunted junction model, to study the dynamics of defects, varying the system size. Coherent motion of domain walls is observed for large system sizes. In the thermodynamical limit, we find E_B=0.1827 in units of the Josephson coupling energy.

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