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Chemically Induced Nanoscale Josephson Effects in Non-Stoichiometric High-Temperature Superconductors

2005/09/02 by Sergei Sergeenkov, S. Sergeenkov, Sergeenkov, Sergei
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Condensed Matter Physics #FOS: Physical sciences #High-pressure geophysics and materials #Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism #Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con) #cond-mat.supr-con

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/0509057

16 pages, 8 figures; invited paper for the Special Golden Jubilee volume of Studies of High-Temperature Superconductors, ed. A. Narlikar

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Abstract

This paper reviews some of the recently suggested (by the author) novel effects expected to occur in intrinsically granular non-stoichiometric material modeled by 2D Josephson junction arrays which are created by a regular 2D network of twin-boundary dislocations with strain fields acting as an insulating barrier between hole-rich domains in underdoped crystals. In Section 2 we consider phase-related magnetization effects, including Josephson chemomagnetism (chemically induced magnetic moment in zero applied magnetic field) and its influence on a low-field magnetization (chemically induced PME), and magnetoconcentration effect (creation of extra oxygen vacancies in applied magnetic field) and its influence on a high-field magnetization (chemically induced analog of "fishtail" anomaly). Section 3 addresses charge-related phenomena which are actually dual to the chemomagnetic effects described in Section 2. More specifically, we discuss a possible existence of a non-zero electric polarization (chemomagnetoelectic effect) and the related change of the charge balance in intrinsically granular non-stoichiometric material under the influence of an applied magnetic field. In particular, we predict an anomalous low-field magnetic behavior of the effective junction charge and concomitant magnetocapacitance in paramagnetic Meissner phase and a charge analog of "fishtail" anomaly at high magnetic fields as well as field-dependent weakening of the chemically-induced Coulomb blockade.

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