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Fractal spin structures as origin of 1/f magnetic noise in superconducting circuits

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2011-02-18 v1 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

Abstract

We analyze recent data on the complex inductance of dc SQUIDs that show 1/f inductance noise highly correlated with conventional 1/f flux noise. We argue that these data imply a formation of long range order in fractal spin structures. We show that these structures appear naturally in a random system of spins with wide distribution of spin-spin interactions. We perform numerical simulations on the simplest model of this type and show that it exhibits 1/f1+ζ1/f^{1+\zeta} magnetization noise with small exponent ζ\zeta and reproduces the correlated behavior observed experimentally.

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@article{arxiv.1102.3445,
  title  = {Fractal spin structures as origin of 1/f magnetic noise in superconducting circuits},
  author = {K. Kechedzhi and L. Faoro and L. B. Ioffe},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1102.3445},
  year   = {2011}
}