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Nature of Phase Transitions of Superconducting Wire Networks in a Magnetic Field

X. S. Ling, M. J. Higgins, Chao Tang, P. M. Chaikin, S. Bhattacharya, H. J. Lezec, J. S. Tsai, J. Fujita, H. Numata, Y. Nakamura, Y. Ochiai

cond-matarXiv:cond-mat/9512036

Abstract

We study I-V characteristics of periodic square Nb wire networks as a function of temperature in a transverse magnetic field, with a focus on three fillings 2/5, 1/2, and 0.618 that represent very different levels of incommensurability. For all three fillings, a scaling behavior of I-V characteristics is found, suggesting a finite temperature continuous superconducting phase transition. The low-temperature I-V characteristics are found to have an exponential form, indicative of the domain-wall excitations.

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