Bunching of fluxons in a long Josephson junction with surface losses
- Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1110 West Green Street, Urbana, Illinois (United States)
It is known that the sine-Gordon model of a long Josephson junction with a surface-loss term predicts a spatially oscillating trailing tail of a strongly contracted fluxon. In the present work, it is demonstrated that this should give rise to bunched (bound) states of fluxons, although the onset of the bunching drastically differs from the standard situation recently investigated in terms of the perturbed nonlinear Schroedinger model. Influence of the bunching on the [ital I]-[ital V] characteristic of an annular junction with a finite number of trapped fluxons is analyzed qualitatively. It is demonstrated that the bunching may set in with a small hysteresis, and it increases voltage at a given current. The latter effect has been observed in most recent experiments with the annular junction.
- OSTI ID:
- 6897912
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review, B: Condensed Matter; (United States), Journal Name: Physical Review, B: Condensed Matter; (United States) Vol. 47:2; ISSN PRBMDO; ISSN 0163-1829
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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