1995/02/03 by P. Chandra, Premala Chandra, L. B. Ioffe +2 · 53 citations
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Condensed matter physics #Josephson effect #Materials science #Physics #Random Matrices and Applications #Range (aeronautics) #Statistical physics #Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics #Superconductivity #Theoretical and Computational Physics #cond-mat
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.75.713
published in Physical Review Letters 75(4), 713-716 (American Physical Society) · 4 pages, 2 Postscript figures in a separate file.
arxiv created 1995/02/03 · openalex publication_date 1995/07/24 · arxiv updated 2016/08/31 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/06
We present an analytic study of a periodic Josephson array with long-range interactions in a transverse magnetic field which frustrates the superconducting phases. We find that this system exhibits a first-order transition into a phase characterized by an extensive number of states separated by barriers that scale with the system size; the associated discontinuity is small in the limit of weak applied field, thus permitting an explicit analysis in this regime.