Scaling Laws for Fluxon Formation in Annular Josephson Tunnel Junctions
Superconductivity
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
It has been argued by Zurek and Kibble that the likelihood of producing defects in a continuous phase transition depends in a characteristic way on the quench rate. In this paper we discuss our experiment for measuring the Zurek-Kibble scaling exponent for the production of fluxons in annular symmetric Josephson Tunnel Junctions. The predicted exponent is , and we find . Further, there is agreement with the ZK prediction for the overall normalisation.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0301294,
title = {Scaling Laws for Fluxon Formation in Annular Josephson Tunnel Junctions},
author = {R. Monaco and R. J. Rivers},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0301294},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
10 pages, 5 figures: To be published in Patterns of Symmetry Breaking (Ed. Jacek Dziarmaga), Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute & COSLAB School, Krakow, Poland (September 2002) Proceedings of The Nato Advanced Study Institute and COSLAB School, September 2002, Krakow, Poland