We have measured the microwave surface resistance (30 -60 GHz) for different crystallographic orientations in the vortex state of Bi2Sr2CaCu20q+q. A sharp magnetoabsorption resonance is observed below T, when ac electric fields and magnetic fields are applied parallel to the c axis (E"~~B [~c).We argue that the observed resonance arises from collective Josephson plasma oscillations generated by interlayer Josephson currents. From the frequency and temperature dependence of the resonance, we discuss the interlayer phase coherence in the vortex liquid and solid states quantitatively.PACS numbers: 74.25.Nf, 74.50.+r, 74.60.Ge In highly anisotropic superconductors, the frequency of the plasma perpendicular to the conduction planes is very low. In high-T, cuprates, plasma mode with polarization perpendicular to Cu02 planes (E~~c) lies well below the superconducting gap due to the strong anisotropy and the large gap energy. Consequently, plasma damping processes such as Landau damping and optical phonon damping are prohibited to occur in the superconducting state of high-T, cuprates [1]. Related to this low lying and stable plasma mode, many exotic electromagnetic phenomena that have never been observed in any other superconductors are predicted to occur [1,2]. For example, the appearance of a sharp plasma edge with c-axis polarization arising from superconducting carriers has been reported below T, in the frequency range of 20 -50 cm ' by the optical reliection measurements for Laz, Sr, Cu04 [3]. On the other hand, in Bi2Sr2CaCu20g+p with extremely large anisotropy (A, /A, b~1 00 with A, and A, b being the London penetration length for the c axis and for the ab plane), the plasma edge for E~~c has not been observed down to 30 cm ' (900 6Hz) [4]. This implies that the plasma mode is in the mm wavelength range in Bi2Sr2CaCu20g+~. It is well established that Bi2Sr2CaCu20g+g behaves as stacks of superconductor-insulator-superconductor Josephson tunnel junctions [5]. In this case, the plasma oscillation is generated by Josephson supercurrents due to the quantum phase difference between adjacent superconducting layers (Josephson plasma). The Josephson plasma oscillation has been studied in low-T, Josephson tunnel junctions [6]. In the low T, junctions, the-Josephson plasma is confined within the insulating barrier owing to its frequency being well below the plasma cutoff frequency in the bulk superconductors.In Bi2Sr~CaCup08+~, however, the Cu02 layers are too thin to fully screen Josephson plasma oscillations. As a result, the Josephson plasma oscillation extends over many insulating layers; i.e. , the collective quantum phase oscillation of many Cu02 layers along the c axis.Recently, a sharp magnetoabsorption resonance has been discovered in the vortex state of Bi2Sr2CaCu20g+g when the magnetic field B is applied normal to Cu02 planes [7]. The most peculiar feature of this resonance is that the resonance frequency decreases with increasing the magnetic field (anticyclotronic) opposite the free carrier cyclotron resona...
We report the first detailed and quantitative study of the Josephson coupling energy in the vortex liquid, Bragg glass, and vortex glass phases of Bi(2)Sr(2)CaCu(2)O(8+delta) by the Josephson plasma resonance. The measurements revealed distinct features in the T and H dependencies of the plasma frequency omega(pl) for each of these three vortex phases. When going across either the Bragg-to-vortex glass or the Bragg-to-liquid transition line, omega(pl) shows a dramatic change. We provide a quantitative discussion on the properties of these phase transitions, including the first order nature of the Bragg-to-vortex glass transition.
We demonstrate, through experiment and theory, enhanced high-frequency current oscillations due to magnetically-induced conduction resonances in superlattices. Strong increase in the ac power originates from complex single-electron dynamics, characterized by abrupt resonant transitions between unbound and localized trajectories, which trigger and shape propagating charge domains. Our data demonstrate that external fields can tune the collective behavior of quantum particles by imprinting configurable patterns in the single-particle classical phase space.PACS numbers: 05.45. Mt, 73.21.Cd Understanding the interplay between the properties of individual objects and their collective behavior is of fundamental interest in many fields [1][2][3][4]. It explains, for example, jamming and pattern formation in granular systems [1,[5][6][7], dynamical heterogeneity in phase transitions [3], tunneling dynamics and quantum phases in cold atoms [8,9], and the synchronization of networks and complex adaptive systems [2,10]. Moreover, interactions between particles play a key role in determining the structures formed when the particles come into contact [4]. Consequently, tailoring single-particle dynamics may provide a route to controlling the collective dynamics of many-body systems. This is a major challenge both in fundamental science [11][12][13] and for developing new technologies such as high-frequency electronic devices [14][15][16], whose performance can be greatly enhanced by applied quantizing magnetic fields [17,18].The phase space structure of individual particles, in particular the existence and relative location of regular and chaotic trajectories, critically affects thermalization and diffusion both in classical and quantum systems [19,20]. Therefore, manipulating the single-particle phase space, by generating new chaotic trajectories for example, is a promising strategy in the search for ways to control other collective phenomena.Usually, the transition to chaos in Hamiltonian systems occurs by the gradual destruction of stable orbits, in accordance with the Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser (KAM) theorem [21]. In far rarer non-KAM chaos, the chaotic orbits become abruptly unbounded when the perturbation frequency attains critical values and map out intricate "stochastic webs" in phase space [19]. Experimental realization of non-KAM classical chaos was recently achieved using a quantum system [22]: a semiconductor superlattice (SL) with a magnetic field, B, tilted relative to an electric field, F, along the SL axis. When the frequency of single-electron Bloch oscillations along the SL axis is commensurate with that for cyclotron motion in the plane of the layers [14,22,23], the orbits map out stochastic webs in phase space, which delocalize the electrons in real space. This delocalization creates multiple resonant peaks in the single-electron drift velocity versus F characteristics, which enhance the measured dc conductivity [22].In this Letter, we show, via experiments and theoretical modeling, that non-KAM single-pa...
All devices realized so far that control the motion of magnetic flux quanta employ either samples with nanofabricated spatially-asymmetric potentials (which strongly limit controllability), or pristine superconductors rectifying with low-efficiency time-asymmetric oscillations of an external magnetic field. Using layered Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+delta materials, here we fabricate and simulate two efficient nonlinear superconducting devices with no spatial asymmetry. These devices can rectify with high-efficiency a two-harmonic external current dragging vortices in target directions by changing either the relative phase or the frequency ratio of the two harmonics.
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