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Arrays of Josephson junctions between unconventional superconductors

Superconductivity 2015-05-28 v1

Abstract

We study large arrays of mesoscopic junctions between gapless superconductors where the tunneling processes of both, particle-hole and Cooper, pairs give rise to a strongly retarded effective action which, contrary to the standard case, can not be readily characterized in terms of a local Josephson energy. This complexity is expected to arise in, e.g., the grain boundary and c-axis junctions in layered high-T_c superconductors. A new representation for describing collective phenomena in this system is introduced, and its phase diagram is discussed, alongside the electrical conductivity.

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@article{arxiv.1105.1056,
  title  = {Arrays of Josephson junctions between unconventional superconductors},
  author = {D. V. Khveshchenko and R. Crooks},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1105.1056},
  year   = {2015}
}

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Latex, 4+ pages, 1 figure