15 research outputs found
The remanent magnetization of Bi-Ca-Sr-Cu-O ceramic rings in weak magnetic fields
High temperature superconductivity : new materials and properties : joint symposium of the SB RAS and the CNEAS TU / edited by Kyosuke Terayam
Magnetic flux dynamics in critical state of one-dimensional discrete superconductor
We give a theoretical description of avalanche-like dynamics of magnetic flux
in the critical state of "hard" type-II superconductors using a model of a
one-dimensional multijunction SQUID that well reproduces the main magnetic
properties of these objects. We show that the system under consideration
demonstrates the self-organized criticality. The avalanches of vortices
manifest themselves as jumps of the total magnetic flux in the sample. The
sizes of these jumps have a power-law distribution. Our results are in
qualitative agreement with experiments.Comment: 7 pages, 5 figure
Novel magnetoinductance effects in Josephson Junction Arrays: A single-plaquette approximation
Using a single-plaquette approximation, novel magnetoinductance effects in
Josephson junction arrays (JJAs) are predicted, including the appearance of
steps in the temperature behavior of magnetic susceptibility. The number of
steps (as well as their size) is controlled by the kinetic inductance of the
plaquette whose field dependence is governed by the Abrikosov vortices
penetrating superconducting regions of the array. The experimental conditions
under which the predicted effects should manifest themselves in artificially
prepared JJAs are discussed.Comment: Accepted for publication in PL
Manifestation of geometric quantization effects in temperature behavior of AC magnetic response of Josephson Junction Arrays
By improving resolution of home-made mutual-inductance measurements
technique, a pronounced step-like structure (with the number of steps n=4 for
all AC fields) has been observed in the temperature dependence of AC
susceptibility in artificially prepared two-dimensional Josephson Junction
Arrays (2D-JJA) of unshunted Nb-AlO_x-Nb junctions with \beta_L(4.2K)=30. Using
a single-plaquette approximation of the overdamped 2D-JJA model, we were able
to successfully fit our data assuming that steps are related to the geometric
properties of the plaquette. The number of steps n corresponds to the number of
flux quanta that can be screened by the maximum critical current of the
junctions. The steps are predicted to manifest themselves in arrays with the
inductance related parameter \beta_L(T) matching a "quantization" condition
\beta_L(0)=2\pi (n+1).Comment: 4 pages (jetpl style), 3 figure
On Field Induced Diaelastic Effect in a Small Josephson Contact
An analog of the diaelastic effect is predicted to occur in a small Josephson
contact with Josephson vortices manifesting itself as magnetic field induced
softening of the contact shear modulus C(T,H). In addition to Fraunhofer type
field oscillations, C(T,H) is found to exhibit pronounced flux driven
temperature oscillations near T_C