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Possible Glassiness in a Periodic Long-Range Josephson Array

Condensed Matter 2016-08-31 v1

Abstract

We present an analytic study of a periodic Josephson array with long-range interactions in a transverse magnetic field. We find that this system exhibits a first-order transition into a phase characterized by an extensive number of states separated by barriers that scale with the system size; the associated discontinuity is small in the limit of weak applied field, thus permitting an explicit analysis in this regime.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9502018,
  title  = {Possible Glassiness in a Periodic Long-Range Josephson Array},
  author = {P. Chandra and L. B. Ioffe and D. Sherrington},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9502018},
  year   = {2016}
}

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4 pages, 2 Postscript figures in a separate file.