Persistent current in superconducting nanorings
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
2009-11-07 v1 Superconductivity
Abstract
The superconductivity in very thin rings is suppressed by quantum phase slips. As a result the amplitude of the persistent current oscillations with flux becomes exponentially small, and their shape changes from sawtooth to a sinusoidal one. We reduce the problem of low-energy properties of a superconducting nanoring to that of a quantum particle in a sinusoidal potential and show that the dependence of the current on the flux belongs to a one-parameter family of functions obtained by solving the respective Schrodinger equation with twisted boundary conditions.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0207277,
title = {Persistent current in superconducting nanorings},
author = {K. A. Matveev and A. I. Larkin and L. I. Glazman},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0207277},
year = {2009}
}
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5 pages, 1 figure