Physics – Condensed Matter – Superconductivity
Scientific paper
2010-08-27
Physics
Condensed Matter
Superconductivity
Scientific paper
Rings are a model system for studying phase coherence in one dimension. Superconducting rings have states with uniform phase windings that are integer multiples of 2$\pi$ called fluxoid states. When the energy difference between these fluxoid states is of order the temperature so that phase slips are energetically accessible, several states contribute to the ring's magnetic response to a flux threading the ring in thermal equilibrium and cause a suppression or downturn in the ring's magnetic susceptibility as a function of temperature. We review the theoretical framework for superconducting fluctuations in rings including a model developed by Koshnick$^1$ which includes only fluctuations in the ring's phase winding number called fluxoid fluctuations and a complete model by von Oppen and Riedel$^2$ that includes all thermal fluctuations in the Ginzburg-Landau framework. We show that for sufficiently narrow and dirty rings the two models predict a similar susceptibility response with a slightly shifted Tc indicating that fluxoid fluctuations are dominant. Finally we present magnetic susceptibility data for rings with different physical parameters which demonstrate the applicability of our models. The susceptibility data spans a region in temperature where the ring transitions from a hysteretic to a non hysteretic response to a periodic applied magnetic field. The magnetic susceptibility data, taken where transitions between fluxoid states are slow compared to the measurement time scale and the ring response was hysteretic, decreases linearly with increasing temperature resembling a mean field response with no fluctuations. At higher temperatures where fluctuations begin to play a larger role a crossover occurs and the non-hysteretic data shows a fluxoid fluctuation induced suppression of diamagnetism below the mean field response that agrees well with the models.
Bert Julie A.
Bluhm Hendrik
Koshnick Nicholas C.
Moler Kathryn A.
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