Predicted field-dependent increase of critical currents in asymmetric superconducting nanocircuits

Details Predicted field-dependent increase of critical currents in asymmetric superconducting nanocircuits Predicted field-dependent increase of critical currents in asymmetric superconducting nanocircuits

2011-11-22

arxiv.org/abs/1111.5233v3

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

Introduction rewritten to include additional references, 17 pages, 14 figures

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The critical current of a thin superconducting strip of width $W$ much larger than the Ginzburg-Landau coherence length $\xi$ but much smaller than the Pearl length $\Lambda = 2 \lambda^2/d$ is maximized when the strip is straight with defect-free edges. When a perpendicular magnetic field is applied to a long straight strip, the critical current initially decreases linearly with $H$ but then decreases more slowly with $H$ when vortices or antivortices are forced into the strip. However, in a superconducting strip containing sharp 90-degree or 180-degree turns, the zero-field critical current at H=0 is reduced because vortices or antivortices are preferentially nucleated at the inner corners of the turns, where current crowding occurs. Using both analytic London-model calculations and time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau simulations, we predict that in such asymmetric strips the resulting critical current can be {\it increased} by applying a perpendicular magnetic field that induces a current-density contribution opposing the applied current density at the inner corners. This effect should apply to all turns that bend in the same direction.

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