Frequency dispersion of nonlinear response of thin superconducting films in the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless state

Dietrich, Scott; Mayer, William; Byrnes, Sean; Vitkalov, Sergey; Sergeev, A.; Bollinger, Anthony T.; Božović, Ivan

doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.91.060506

Title: Frequency dispersion of nonlinear response of thin superconducting films in the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless state

Journal Article · Fri Feb 20 00:00:00 EST 2015 · Physical Review. B, Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.91.060506· OSTI ID:1193194

Dietrich, Scott ^[1]; Mayer, William ^[1]; Byrnes, Sean ^[1]; Vitkalov, Sergey ^[1]; Sergeev, A. ^[2]; Bollinger, Anthony T. ^[3]; Božović, Ivan ^[3]

City College of the City Univ. of New York, New York, NY (United States)
SUNY at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY (United States)
Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)

The effects of microwave radiation on transport properties of atomically thin La_2-xSr_xCuO₄ films were studied in the 0.1-20 GHz frequency range. Resistance changes induced by microwaves were investigated at different temperatures (8–15 K) near the superconducting transition. A strong decrease of the nonlinear response is observed within a few GHz of a cutoff frequency ν_cut ≈ 2GHz. The expected frequency dependence vastly underestimates the sharpness of this drop. Numerical simulations that assume ac response to follow dc V-I characteristics of the films reproduce well the low frequency behavior, but fail above ν_cut. Thus, high-frequency radiation is much less effective in inducing vortex-antivortex dissociation in the oscillating superconducting condensate.

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Research Organization:: Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC00112704

OSTI ID:: 1193194

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1180792

Report Number(s):: BNL-107857-2015-JA; PRBMDO; R&D Project: MA506MACA; KC0203020

Journal Information:: Physical Review. B, Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, Vol. 91, Issue 6; ISSN 1098-0121

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