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Maximal supercurrent of a Josephson junction in a field of magnetic particles

A. V. Samokhvalov

Institute for Physics of Microstructures, Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhnii Novgorod

Abstract: The maximal supercurrent $I_m$ of a short Josephson junction formed by an edge contact of two superconducting films is calculated for the case where the junction is placed in a periodic field produced by a chain of magnetic nanoparticles. The commensurability effects occurring when the magnetic flux of a homogeneous external field $H_0$ through an elementary cell is equal to an integral number of magnetic flux quanta $\Phi_0$ are considered. The effects give rise to additional maxima in the $I_m(H_0)$ dependence.

PACS: 74.50.+r, 74.80.-g

Received: 05.05.2003
Revised: 22.07.2003

 English version: Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics Letters, 2003, 78:6, 369–373

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