학술논문

Evidence of Long-Range Coherence in Superconducting Networks
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity IEEE Trans. Appl. Supercond. Applied Superconductivity, IEEE Transactions on. 33(1):1-6 Jan, 2023
Subject
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Fingers
Josephson junctions
Junctions
Granular superconductors
Arrays
Topology
Superconducting transition temperature
Josephson effect
networks of Josephson junctions
superconductive electronics
Language
ISSN
1051-8223
1558-2515
2378-7074
Abstract
Systematic experimental investigations are reported of charge transport in double-comb and star-shaped planar arrays obtained by coupling superconducting islands via Josephson tunnel junctions. The fabrication of the structures is based on a standard niobium trilayer technology with superconducting transition temperature close to 9 K. Noticeable enhancements of Josephson supercurrents and energy gap are recorded. Complementarity between experimental data and theoretical predictions is employed as a tool to clarify the role of different graph topologies in conditioning the singular behavior of synthetic graph-shaped networks. The predictions of the theoretical models are based on the Bose-Einstein topological condensation and a de Gennes-Alexander approach for granular superconductors. Evidence is shown of the dependence, for both gap and Josephson critical currents, on node-to-node connections in the networks, namely on array topology.