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Charge-imbalance effects in intrinsic Josephson systems

Superconductivity 2009-11-07 v1

Abstract

We report on two types of experiments with intrinsic Josephson systems made from layered superconductors which show clear evidence of nonequilibrium effects: 1. In 2-point measurements of IV-curves in the presence of high- frequency radiation a shift of the voltage of Shapiro steps from the canonical value hf/(2e) has been observed. 2. In the IV-curves of double-mesa structures an influence of the current through one mesa on the voltage measured on the other mesa is detected. Both effects can be explained by charge-imbalance on the superconducting layers produced by the quasi-particle current, and can be described successfully by a recently developed theory of nonequilibrium effects in intrinsic Josephson systems.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0207634,
  title  = {Charge-imbalance effects in intrinsic Josephson systems},
  author = {S. Rother and Y. Koval and P. Muller and R. Kleiner and D. A. Ryndyk and J. Keller and C. Helm},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0207634},
  year   = {2009}
}

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8pages, 9figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. B