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Measurements of surface impedance of superconductors as a function of frequency in microwave range
We report measurements of the complex resistivity in YBCO and MgB thin
films over a continuous frequency spectrum in the microwave range, making use
of a Corbino disk geometry. The paper mainly focuses on the extraction of the
resistivity from raw data, displaying data analysis procedure and its limits of
validity. We obtain and show resistivity curves as a function of frequency and
temperature denoting a frequency dependent widening of the superconducting
transition.Comment: 12 pages, 7 figures. Extended and revised version of cond-mat/0307143
(2003
Vortex state microwave response in superconducting cuprates and MgB
We investigate the physics of the microwave response in
YBaCuO, SmBaCuO and MgB
in the vortex state. We first recall the theoretical basics of vortex-state
microwave response in the London limit. We then present a wide set of
measurements of the field, temperature, and frequency dependences of the vortex
state microwave complex resistivity in superconducting thin films, measured by
a resonant cavity and by swept-frequency Corbino disk. The combination of these
techniques allows for a comprehensive description of the microwave response in
the vortex state in these innovative superconductors. In all materials
investigated we show that flux motion alone cannot take into account all the
observed experimental features, neither in the frequency nor in the field
dependence. The discrepancy can be resolved by considering the (usually
neglected) contribution of quasiparticles to the response in the vortex state.
The peculiar, albeit different, physics of the superconducting materials here
considered, namely two-band superconductivity in MgB and superconducting
gap with lines of nodes in cuprates, give rise to a substantially increased
contribution of quasiparticles to the field-dependent microwave response. With
careful combined analysis of the data it is possible to extract or infer many
interesting quantities related to the vortex state, such as the
temperature-dependent characteristic vortex frequency and vortex viscosity, the
field dependence of the quasiparticle density, the temperature dependence of
the -band superfluid density in MgBComment: 51 pages, 27 figures, to appear as a book chapter (Nova Science
Surface impedance of superconductive thin films as a function of frequency in microwave range
We report measurements of the complex resistivity in and thin
films over a continuous frequency spectrum in the microwave range, making use
of a Corbino disk geometry. The paper mainly focuses on the extraction of the
resistivity from raw data, displaying data analisys procedure and its limits of
validity. We obtain and show resistivity curves as a function of frequency and
temperature denoting a frequency dependent widening of the superconductive
transition.Comment: 8 pages, Latex, 5 figure
New aspects of microwave properties of Nb in the mixed state
We present a study of the frequency dependence of the vortex dynamics in a
conventional superconductor. We have employed a swept-frequency, Corbino-disk
technique to investigate the temperature (3.6K-Tc) and high-field (from Hc2/2
to Hc2) microwave complex resistivity in Nb thin (20-40 nm) films as a function
of the frequency (1-20 GHz). We have found several previously unnoticed
features: (i) a field-dependent depinning frequency in the GHz range; (ii)
deviations from the accepted frequency dependence, that can be ascribed to some
kind of vortex creep; (iii) the presence of switching phenomena, reminiscent of
vortex instabilities. We discuss the possible origin of the features here
reported.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures, presented at VORTEX VI Conference, to appear on
Physica
Microwave properties of Nb/PdNi/Nb trilayers. Observation of flux flow in excess of Bardeen-Stephen theory
We combine wideband (1-20 GHz) Corbino disk and dielectric resonator (8.2
GHz) techniques to study the microwave properties in Nb/PdNi/Nb trilayers,
grown by UHV dc magnetron sputtering, composed by Nb layers of nominal
thickness =15 nm, and a ferromagnetic PdNi layer of thickness = 1, 2,
8 and 9 nm. We focus on the vortex state. Magnetic fields up to were
applied. The microwave resistivity at fixed increases with ,
eventually exceeding the Bardeen Stephen flux flow value.Comment: 6 pages. Submitted to Journal of Superconductivity and Novel
Magnetis
Radiative corrections in bumblebee electrodynamics
We investigate some quantum features of the bumblebee electrodynamics in flat
spacetimes. The bumblebee field is a vector field that leads to a spontaneous
Lorentz symmetry breaking. For a smooth quadratic potential, the massless
excitation (Nambu-Goldstone boson) can be identified as the photon, transversal
to the vacuum expectation value of the bumblebee field. Besides, there is a
massive excitation associated with the longitudinal mode and whose presence
leads to instability in the spectrum of the theory. By using the
principal-value prescription, we show that no one-loop radiative corrections to
the mass term is generated. Moreover, the bumblebee self-energy is not
transverse, showing that the propagation of the longitudinal mode can not be
excluded from the effective theory.Comment: Revised version: contains some more elaborated interpretation of the
results. Conclusions improve
Sterile neutrino dark matter, CDMS-II and a light Higgs boson
We add a singlet right handed neutrino plus a charged and a neutral singlet
scalars to the standard model. This extension includes a discrete symmetry such
that we obtain a heavy sterile neutrino which couples only to the electron and
the new scalars. In this sense the singlet neutrino does not mix with ordinary
ones and thus has no effect on Big Bang Nucleosynthesis. However, such sterile
neutrino can be in equilibrium with electroweak particles in the early Universe
due to its couplings to electrons and also because the Higgs boson mixes with
the singlet scalars. We obtain that the sterile neutrino constitutes a dark
matter candidate and analyze its direct detection in the light of current
experiments. Our results show that if such a sterile neutrino is realized in
nature, and CDMS-II experiment confirms its positive signal, dark matter
demands a rather light Higgs boson with new Physics at some 500 GeV scale.Comment: 16 pages, 13 figures, uses axodraw.st
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