2005/01/27 by V. M. Krasnov, Thilo Bauch, T. Bauch +1 · 2 citations
Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Magnetic and transport properties of perovskites and related materials #Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism #Quantum and electron transport phenomena #cond-mat.supr-con
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevb.72.012512
published as Phys. Rev. B 72 (2005) 012512 · 5 pages, 4 figs
arxiv created 2005/01/27 · openalex publication_date 2005/07/22 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We study thermal fluctuation phenomena in small Bi-2212 intrinsic Josephson junctions. Being able to measure switching currents of a single intrinsic junction, we observe that its statistics can be very well described by thermal activation from a periodic Josephson potential with the sinusoidal current-phase relation. This is a direct evidence for the dc-intrinsic Josephson effect and confirmation of the tunneling nature of interlayer transport in strongly anisotropic high-temperature superconductors. Furthermore, the fluctuation-free critical current, extracted from the analysis of switching current statistics, exhibits a temperature dependence typical for superconductor-insulator-superconductor tunnel junctions.