Limiting mechanism for critical current in topologically frustrated Josephson junctions

2014/05/31 by Sarah B. Etter, Hirono Kaneyasu, Matthias Ossadnik +1 · 11 citations
Chemistry · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Condensed Matter Physics #Chemistry #Condensed matter physics #Coupling (piping) #Crystallography #Eutectic system #Josephson effect #Limiting #Magnetic and transport properties of perovskites and related materials #Materials science #Microstructure #Phase (matter) #Phase transition #Physics #Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism #Quantum mechanics #Superconductivity #cond-mat.supr-con

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevb.90.024515

published in Physical Review B 90(2) (American Physical Society) · 11 pages, 9 figures; appendix: 1 page, 1 figure

openalex publication_date 2014/07/18 · arxiv created 2014/08/04 · arxiv updated 2014/08/05 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

The authors offer an explanation for nonstandard behavior observed in Pb/Ru/Sr₂RuO₄ Josephson junctions in terms of frustration arising from the topologically nontrivial order parameter, if one considers Sr₂RuO₄ as a chiral p-wave superconductor.

Citations

• Phase Transition in the 3-Kelvin Phase of Eutectic Sr2RuO4–Ru
• Nucleation of Vortex State in Ru-Inclusion in Eutectic Ruthenium Oxide Sr2RuO4–Ru

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