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Phase-sticking in one-dimensional Josephson Junction Chains

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2015-06-15 v1

Abstract

We studied current-voltage characteristics of long one dimensional Josephson junction chains with Josephson energy much larger than charging energy, EJECE_J \gg E_C. In this regime, typical IV curves of the samples consist of a supercurrent branch at low bias voltages followed by a voltage-independent chain current branch, IChainI_{Chain} at high bias. Our experiments showed that IChainI_{Chain} is not only voltage-independent but it is also practically temperature-independent up to TCT_C. We have successfully model the transport properties in these chains using a capacitively shunted junction model with nonlinear damping.

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@article{arxiv.1304.4046,
  title  = {Phase-sticking in one-dimensional Josephson Junction Chains},
  author = {Adem Ergül and Jack Lidmar and Jan Johansson and David Schaeffer and Magnus Lindblom and David B. Haviland},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1304.4046},
  year   = {2015}
}
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