Journal
PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 80, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.020502
Keywords
bismuth compounds; calcium compounds; critical currents; flux-line lattice; high-temperature superconductors; Josephson effect; strontium compounds; terahertz waves
Funding
- K. & A. Wallenberg Foundation
- Swedish Research Council
- SU-Core Facility in Nanotechnology
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The in-phase (rectangular) fluxon lattice is required for achieving coherent THz emission from stacked Josephson junctions. Unfortunately, it is usually unstable due to mutual repulsion of fluxons in neighbor junctions, which favors the out-of-phase (triangular) lattice. Here we experimentally study magnetic field modulation of the critical current in small Bi-2212 mesa structures with different sizes. Clear Fraunhofer-like modulation is observed when the field is aligned parallel to CuO planes. For long mesas the periodicity of modulation is equal to half the flux quantum per intrinsic Josephson junction, corresponding to the triangular fluxon lattice. However, the periodicity is changed to one flux quantum, characteristic for the rectangular fluxon lattice, both by decreasing the length of the mesas and by increasing magnetic field. Thus, we demonstrate that the stationary in-phase fluxon state can be effectively stabilized by geometrical confinement in small Bi-2212 mesa structures.
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