Vortices and Dissipation in a Bilayer Thin Film Superconductor

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2005-02-16

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0502402v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

17 pages, 2 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.71.224514

Vortex dynamics in a bilayer thin film superconductor are studied through a Josephson-coupled double layer XY model. A renormalization group analysis shows that there are three possible states associated with the relative phase of the layers: a free vortex phase, a logarithmically confined vortex-antivortex pair phase, and a linearly confined phase. The phases may be distinguished by measuring the resistance to counterflow current. For a geometry in which current is injected and removed from the two layers at the same edge by an ideal (dissipationless) lead, we argue that the three phases yield distinct behaviors: metallic conductivity in the free vortex phase, a power law I-V in the logarithmically confined phase, and true dissipationless superconductivity in the linearly confined phase. Numerical simulations of a resistively shunted Josephson junction model reveal size dependences for the resistance of this system that support these expectations.

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