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Study of higher-order harmonics of complex ac susceptibility in $YB_2C_3O_{7-\delta}$ thin films by the mutual inductive method

Superconductivity 2010-12-17 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

We have applied the mutual inductive method to study higher-order harmonics of complex ac susceptibility χn=χniχ"n\chi_n=\chi'_n-i\chi"_n for YB_2C_3O_{7-\delta}thinfilmsasfunctionofthetemperatureandtheappliedfield.TheexperimentalresultswerecomparedwithanalyticalandnumericalresultsobtainedfromtheIshidaMazakimodelandthesolutionoftheintegralequationforthecurrentdensity,respectively.Bothmodelsallowustoreproducedthemainexperimentalfeatures,however,as thin films as function of the temperature and the applied field. The experimental results were compared with analytical and numerical results obtained from the Ishida-Mazaki model and the solution of the integral equation for the current density, respectively. Both models allow us to reproduced the main experimental features, however, as nincreasesthenumericalmodelshowsnotablediscrepancies.Thisfailurecanbeattributedtothecurrentvoltagecharacteristics.Alsothisinvestigationyieldstheactivationenergy increases the numerical model shows notable discrepancies. This failure can be attributed to the current-voltage characteristics. Also this investigation yields the activation energy U_candthecriticalcurrentdensity and the critical current density J_c$ for two samples both at T=0.

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@article{arxiv.1005.4378,
  title  = {Study of higher-order harmonics of complex ac susceptibility in $YB_2C_3O_{7-\delta}$ thin films by the mutual inductive method},
  author = {Israel Perez and Victor Sosa and Fidel Gamboa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1005.4378},
  year   = {2010}
}

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8 pages, 3 figures