Time dilation of a bound half-fluxon pair in a long Josephson junction with a ferromagnetic insulator.
The fluxon dynamics in a long Josephson junction with a ferromagnetic insulating layer is investigated. It is found that the Josephson phase obeys a double sine-Gordon equation involving a bound pi fluxon solution, and the internal oscillations of the bound pair acting as a clock exhibit Lorentz reductions in their frequencies regarded as a relativistic effect in the time domain, i.e., time dilation. This is the complement to the Lorentz contraction of fluxons with no clock. A possible observation scheme is also discussed.
Nishida
Munehiro
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Graduate School of Advanced Science of Matter, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, 739-8530, Japan.
Murata
Kyoko
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Fujii
Toshiyuki
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Hatakenaka
Noriyuki
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