arXiv · cond-mat/9802237
Capacitively coupled Josephson-junction chains: straight and slanted coupling
Abstract
Two chains of ultrasmall Josephson junctions, coupled capacitively with each other in the two different ways, straight and slanted coupling, are considered. As the coupling capacitance increases, regardless of the coupling scheme, the transport of particle-hole pairs in the system is found to drive the quantum-phase transition at zero temperature, which is a insulator-to-superfluid transition of the particle-hole pairs and belongs to the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless universal class. The different underlying transport mechanisms for the two coupling schemes are reflected in the difference between the transition points.
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Mahn-Soo Choi. 1998-02-23. Capacitively coupled Josephson-junction chains: straight and slanted coupling. https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-8984%2F12%2F6%2F316
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