• DOI:10.1103/PhysRevB.77.024506
• Corpus ID: 29381407

Bistability in superconducting rings containing an inhomogeneous Josephson junction

@article{Gaass2008BistabilityIS,
  title={Bistability in superconducting rings containing an inhomogeneous Josephson junction},
  author={Markus Gaass and Stevan Nadj-Perge and Z. Radovi'c and Andreas Bauer and M. Aprili and Werner Wegscheider and Christoph Strunk},
  journal={Physical Review B},
  year={2008},
  volume={77},
  pages={024506}
}

• M. Gaass, S. Nadj-Perge, +4 authors C. Strunk
• Published 12 July 2007
• Physics
• Physical Review B

We investigate the magnetic response of a superconducting Nb ring containing a ferromagnetic PdNi Josephson junction and a tunnel junction in parallel. Doubling of the switching frequency is observed within certain intervals of the external magnetic field. For sinusoidal current-phase relations in both junctions, our model of a double superconducting quantum interference device (a small two-junction loop that interrupts the larger ring) explains this feature by a sequence of current reversals in the ferromagnetic section of the junction in these field intervals. The switching anomalies are induced by the coupling between the magnetic fluxes in the two superconducting loops.