Nonlinear Josephson plasma waves in slabs of layered superconductors
| Autor: | T. M. Slipchenko, V. A. Yampol'skii, Alexander L. Rakhmanov, Sergey Savel'ev, Franco Nori |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
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Josephson effect
Physics Superconductivity Condensed matter physics Wave propagation Terahertz radiation Energy Engineering and Power Technology Resonance Plasma Condensed Matter Physics Electronic Optical and Magnetic Materials Magnetic field Dispersion relation Electrical and Electronic Engineering |
| Zdroj: | Physica C: Superconductivity and its Applications. 468:499-502 |
| ISSN: | 0921-4534 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.physc.2007.11.017 |
| Popis: | For layered superconductors, we study the specific nonlinear Josephson plasma waves (NJPWs) propagating along thin superconducting slabs and damping away from them. Two cases are considered, when the superconductor is surrounded by either vacuum or metals. The magnetic field of the NJPW is distributed symmetrically with respect to the middle of the sample and can change its sign inside the slab. The impedance ratio of the tangential electric and magnetic field amplitudes for NJPWs can be of the order of unity. For the case of a superconductor surrounded by the vacuum, this results in a non-monotonic dispersion relation, ω ( k ), strongly sensitive to the NJPW amplitudes. Therefore, the “stopping light” phenomenon can be observed at frequencies where d ω ( k )/d k = 0. Resonance excitations of the NJPWs should produce anomalies in the amplitude dependence of the reflectivity and transmissivity of the incident THz waves, which could be useful for THz devices. Animations illustrating the results presented here, are available online at dml.riken.go.jp/nonlinear . |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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