Transformer Configuration in Three Dimensional Josephson Lattices at Zero Magnetic Field
- 24 July 1995
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 75 (4), 717-720
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.75.717
Abstract
Recent experiments on superconductors at zero magnetic field have been performed with a transformer configuration of contacts. We interpret the experimental data on the basis of large-scale Langevin dynamical simulations of a three dimensional (3D) Josephson lattice with a current bias through a single plane. We show that the experimentally observed effects can be attributed to linking thermal vortex loop excitations that cause voltages in neighboring superconducting planes to lock in a narrow temperature range near the 3D phase transition.
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