title: Supercurrent transferring through c-axis cuprate Josephson junctions with thick normal-metal bridge.
abstract: With a simple but exactly solvable model, we investigate the supercurrent transferring through the c-axis cuprate superconductor-normal metal-superconductor junctions with the clean normal metal much thicker than its coherence length. It is shown that the supercurrent as a function of thickness of the normal metal decreases much slower than the exponential decaying expected by the proximity effect. The present result may account for the giant proximity effect observed in the c-axis cuprate SNS junctions.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, PO Box 603, Beijing 100190, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Xin-Zhong
authors.initials: XZ
authors.lastname: Yan
authors.forename: C S
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Ting