Two Phase Collective Modes in Josephson Vortex Lattice in Intrinsic Josephson Junction Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ
Abstract
Josephson plasma excitations in the high Tc superconductor Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ have been investigated in a wide microwave frequency region (9.8 -- 75 GHz), in particular, in magnetic field applied parallel to the ab plane of the single crystal. In sharp contrast to the case for magnetic fields parallel to the c axis or tilted from the ab plane, it was found that there are two kinds of resonance modes, which are split in energy and possess two distinctly different magnetic field dependences. One always lies higher in energy than the other and has a shallow minimum at about 0.8 kOe, then increases linearly with magnetic field. On the other hand, another mode begins to appear only in a magnetic field (from a few kOe and higher) and has a weakly decreasing tendency with increasing magnetic field. By comparing with a recent theoretical model the higher energy mode can naturally be attributed to the Josephson plasma resonance mode propagating along the primitive reciprocal lattice vector of the Josephson vortex lattice, whereas the lower frequency mode is assigned to the novel phase collective mode of the Josephson vortex lattice, which has never been observed before.
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