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Chin. Phys. B, 2008, Vol. 17(1): 311-316    DOI: 10.1088/1674-1056/17/1/055
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Magnetic field induced phase branches of the superconducting transition in two-dimensional square $\pi$-loop arrays

Liu Dang-Ting(刘当婷), Tian Ye(田野), Chen Geng-Hua(陈赓华), and Yang Qian-Sheng(杨乾声)
Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, \Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, China
Abstract  Based on the results of explicit forms of free energy density for each possible arrangement of magnetization fluxes in large-scale two-dimensional (2D) square $\pi$-loop arrays given by Li et al [2007 Chin. Phys. 16 1450], the field-cooled superconducting phase transition is further investigated by analysing the free energy of the arrays with a simplified symmetrical model. Our analytical result is exactly the same as that obtained in Li's paper by means of numerical calculations. It is shown that the phase transition splits into two branches with either ferromagnetic or anti-ferromagnetic flux ordering, which depends periodically on the strength of external magnetic flux $\phi_{\rm e}$ through each loop and monotonically on the screen parameter $\beta $ of the loops in the arrays. In principle, the diagram of the phase branches is similar to that of its one-dimensional counterpart. The influence of thermal fluctuation on the flux ordering during the transition from normal to superconducting states of the $\pi $-loop arrays is also discussed.
Keywords:  Josephson junctions      $\pi$-loop arrays      phase branches  
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PACS:  74.81.Fa (Josephson junction arrays and wire networks)  
  74.25.Bt (Thermodynamic properties)  
  74.25.Dw (Superconductivity phase diagrams)  
  74.25.Qt  
  74.40.+k  
Fund: Project supported by the State Key Development Program for Basic Research of China (Grant No 2006CB601007) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos 10474129 and 10534060).

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Liu Dang-Ting(刘当婷), Tian Ye(田野), Chen Geng-Hua(陈赓华), and Yang Qian-Sheng(杨乾声) Magnetic field induced phase branches of the superconducting transition in two-dimensional square $\pi$-loop arrays 2008 Chin. Phys. B 17 311

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