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Impact of the transport supercurrent on the Josephson effect

Superconductivity 2017-08-23 v1

Abstract

We study the weak link between current-carrying superconductors, both conventional and d-wave. The state of the system is controlled by two parameters: the order parameter phase difference ϕ\phi and the superfluid velocity vsv_{s}, which parameterizes the parallel to the boundary transport supercurrent which is injected externally. The low-temperature current-phase relations are derived. We consider two models of weak links: a constriction between two conventional superconductors and a plane boundary between two differently orientated d-wave superconductors. We show that for some relation between ϕ\phi and vsv_{s} quasiparticles create the current along the boundary which flows in the direction opposite to the transport supercurrent.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0404738,
  title  = {Impact of the transport supercurrent on the Josephson effect},
  author = {S. N. Shevchenko},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0404738},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

5 pages, 3 figures; submitted for publication in Proceedings of MS+S2004 symposium (without Sec.V and the last part of Sec.III)