Alternating dynamic state self-generated by internal resonance in stacks of intrinsic Josephson junctions
Abstract
Intrinsic Josephson-junction stacks realized in high-temperature superconductors provide a very attractive base for developing coherent sources of electromagnetic radiation in the terahertz frequency range. A promising way to synchronize phase oscillations in all the junctions is to excite an internal cavity resonance. We demonstrate that this resonance promotes the formation of an alternating coherent state, in which the system spontaneously splits into two subsystems with different phase-oscillation patterns. There is a static phase shift between the oscillations in the two subsystems, which changes from 0 to 2π in a narrow region near the stack center. The oscillating electric and magnetic fields are almost homogeneous in all the junctions. The formation of this state promotes efficient pumping of the energy into the cavity resonance leading to strong resonance features in the current-voltage dependence.
- Publication:
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Physical Review B
- Pub Date:
- November 2008
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevB.78.174509
- arXiv:
- arXiv:0804.0146
- Bibcode:
- 2008PhRvB..78q4509K
- Keywords:
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- 74.50.+r;
- 74.81.Fa;
- 85.25.Cp;
- 74.72.Hs;
- Tunneling phenomena;
- point contacts weak links Josephson effects;
- Josephson junction arrays and wire networks;
- Josephson devices;
- Bi-based cuprates;
- Condensed Matter - Superconductivity;
- Condensed Matter - Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics;
- Condensed Matter - Materials Science
- E-Print:
- 4 pages, 3 figures