Paramagnetic and diamagnetic States in two-dimensional josephson-junction arrays.
Many experiments on high-temperature superconductors have shown paramagnetic behavior when the sample is field cooled. The paramagnetism was attributed to a d-wave order parameter creating pi-junctions in the samples. However, the same effect was later discovered in traditional low-temperature superconductors and conventional Josephson-junction arrays which are s wave. By simulating both conventional and mixed pi/conventional Josephson-junction arrays we determine that differences exist which may be sufficient to clearly identify the presence of pi junctions. In particular, the pi junctions cause a symmetry breaking providing a measurable signature of their presence.
De Leo
Cinzia
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Dipartimento di Energetica, Universitá di L'Aquila, Italy.
Rotoli
Giacomo
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