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Dynamic critical behaviors in two-dimensional Josephson junction arrays with positional disorder

Superconductivity 2009-11-11 v1

Abstract

We numerically investigate dynamic critical behaviors of two-dimensional (2D) Josephson-junction arrays with positional disorder in the scheme of the resistively shunted junction dynamics. Large-scale computation of the current voltage characteristics reveals an evidence supporting that a phase transition occurs at a nonzero critical temperature in the strong disorder regime, as well as in the weak disorder regime. The phase transition at weak disorder appears to belong to the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) type. In contrast, evidence for a non-BKT transition is found in the strong disorder regime. These results are consistent with the recent experiment %by Yun {\it et al.} in cond-mat/0509151 on positionally disordered Josephson-junction arrays; in particular, the critical temperature of the non-BKT transition (ranging from 0.265 down to the minimum 0.22 in units of EJ/kBE_J/k_B with the Josephson coupling strength EJE_J), the correlation length critical exponent ν=1.2\nu=1.2, and the dynamic critical exponent z=2.0z=2.0 in the strong disorder regime agree with the existing studies of the 2D gauge-glass model.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0608390,
  title  = {Dynamic critical behaviors in two-dimensional Josephson junction arrays with positional disorder},
  author = {Jaegon Um and Beom Jun Kim and Petter Minnhagen and M. Y. Choi and Sung-Ik Lee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0608390},
  year   = {2009}
}

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Phys. Rev. B (in press)