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Nonlinear Seebeck Effect in a Model Granular Superconductor

Sergei Sergeenkov

cond-mat.supr-conarXiv:cond-mat/9805368

Abstract

The change of the Josephson supercurrent density of a weakly-connected granular superconductor in response to externally applied arbitrary thermal gradient dT/dx (nonlinear Seebeck effect) is considered within a model of 3D Josephson junction arrays. For dT/dx>(dT/dx)c, where (dT/dx)c is estimated to be of the order of 104 K/m for YBCO ceramics with an average grain's size of 10 microns, the weak-links-dominated thermopower S (Seebeck coefficient) is predicted to become strongly dT/dx-dependent.

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