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Interference pattern of a long diffusive Josephson junction

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2007-07-04 v1

Abstract

We calculate the modulation by a magnetic field of the critical current of a long disordered Josephson junction in the diffusive limit, i.e. when the dimensions of the junction are larger that the elastic mean free path, and when the length LL is much larger than the width ww. Due to the averaging of the gauge invariant phase factor over diffusive trajectories, the well-known oscillations of the Fraunhofer pattern are smoothed out and replaced by an exponential decay at large field. The predicted pattern is universal, i.e., it is independent of the disorder strength. We point out an interesting relation with the physics of speckle correlations in optics of turbid media.

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@article{arxiv.0707.0411,
  title  = {Interference pattern of a long diffusive Josephson junction},
  author = {Gilles Montambaux},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0707.0411},
  year   = {2007}
}

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4 pages, 2 figures

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