Related papers: Pancake vortices
The influence of the geometry of a thin superconducting sample on the penetration of the magnetic field lines and the arrangement of vortices are investigated theoretically. We compare superconducting disks, squares and triangles with the…
It is proposed, that a two-dimensional magnetic superstructure closely related to the one mentioned recently by Christensen et al. [cond-mat/0608204] constitutes a viable interpretation of the four-fold splitting of the magnetic (\pi, \pi)…
Superconductivity provides a canonical example of a quantum phase of matter. When superconducting islands are connected by Josephson junctions in a lattice, the low temperature state of the system can map to the celebrated XY model and its…
The quasiparticle excitation spectrum of an isolated vortex in a clean layered d-wave superconductor is calculated, using both the Bogoliubov--de Gennes and the quasiclassical Eilenberger equations. Analytical solutions are obtained within…
We observed splitting of the low-bias vortex-flow branch in a dense-Josephson-vortex state into multiple sub-branches in current-voltage characteristics of intrinsic Josephson junctions (IJJs) of Bi$_{2}$Sr$_{2}$CaCu$_{2}$O$_{8+x}$ single…
Coupled coaxially stacked toroidal condensates with persistent currents suggest an appealing physical platform for the investigation of various phenomena related to interacting superflows from Josephson effects in the regime of weak…
An exact solution of the nonlinear nonlocal diffusion problem is obtained that describes the evolution of the magnetic flux injected into a soft or hard type-II superconductor film or a two-dimensional Josephson junction array. (The…
The structure and the degenracy of the ground state of a fully-frustrated XY-model are investigated for the case of a dice lattice geometry. The results are applicable for the description of Josephson junction arrays and thin…
In mesoscopic two-gap superconductors with sizes of the order of the coherence length noncomposite vortices are found to be thermodynamically stable in a large domain of the $T - H$ phase diagram. In these phases the vortex cores of one…
We consider the structure of Josephson vortices approaching the junction boundary with vacuum in large area Josephson junctions with the Josephson length $\lambda_J$ large relative to the London penetration depth $\lambda_L$. Using the…
The dynamical vortex response of a two-dimensional array of the resistively shunted Josephson junctions in a perpendicular magnetic field is inferred from simulations. It is found that, as the magnetic field is increased at a fixed…
Establishment of phase-coherence and a non-dissipative (super)current between two weakly coupled superconductors, known as the Josephson effect, plays a foundational role in basic physics and applications to metrology, precision sensing,…
We investigate the dynamics of the Josephson vortex lattice in layered high-T$_{c}$ superconductors at high magnetic fields. Starting from coupled equations for superconducting phases and magnetic field we derive equations for the relative…
A cylindrical Josephson junction with a spatially dependent Josephson coupling which averages to zero is studied in order to model the physics of a disk of d-wave superconductor embedded in a superconducting film of a different symmetry. It…
A key phenomenon related to the Josephson effect is oscillations of different properties of superconducting tunneling junctions with magnetic field. We consider magnetic oscillations of the critical current in stacks of intrinsic Josephson…
In this work, we study the spontaneous formation of a vortex lattice in two-dimensional valley polarized superconductors due to orbital magnetization. The screening of magnetic field is weak for two-dimension superconductors, allowing for…
We discuss the effect of an (ab)-surface on the melting transition of the pancake-vortex lattice in a layered superconductor within a density functional theory approach. Both discontinuous and continuous surface melting are predicted for…
We investigate dynamics of Josephson vortex lattice in layered high T$_{c}$ superconductors at high magnetic fields. It is shown that the average electric current depends on the lattice structure and is resonantly enhanced when the…
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Superconducting Josephson vortices have direct analogues in ultracold-atom physics as solitary-wave excitations of two-component superfluid Bose gases with linear coupling. Here we numerically extend the zero-velocity Josephson vortex…