Type:
Journal
Description:
We show that some of the Josephson couplings of junctions arranged to form an inhomogeneous network undergo a non-perturbative renormalization provided that the network's connectivity is pertinently chosen. As a result, the zero-voltage Josephson critical currents I c turn out to be enhanced along directions selected by the network's topology. This renormalization effect is possible only on graphs whose adjacency matrix admits a hidden spectrum (ie a set of localized states disappearing in the thermodynamic limit). We provide a theoretical and experimental study of this effect by comparing the superconducting behaviour of a comb-shaped Josephson junction network and a linear chain made with the same junctions: we show that the Josephson critical currents of the junctions located on the comb's backbone are bigger than those of the junctions located on the chain. Our theoretical analysis, based on a …
Publisher:
IOP Publishing
Publication date:
1 Dec 2006
Biblio References:
Volume: 8 Issue: 12 Pages: 327
Origin:
New Journal of Physics