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Frequency dispersion of nonlinear response of thin superconducting films in the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless state

Scott Dietrich, William Mayer, Sean Byrnes, Sergey Vitkalov, A. Sergeev, Anthony T. Bollinger, Ivan Božović

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.91.060506 · Physical Review B

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Abstract

The effects of microwave radiation on the transport properties of atomically thin La2−xSrxCuO4 films were studied in the 0.1–13 GHz frequency range. Resistance changes induced by microwaves were investigated at different temperatures near the superconducting transition. The nonlinear response decreases by several orders of magnitude within a few GHz of a cutoff frequency νcut≈2GHz. Numerical simulations that assume an ac response to follow the dc V−I characteristics of the films reproduce well the low-frequency behavior, but fail above νcut. The results indicate that two-dimensional (2D) superconductivity is resilient against high-frequency microwave radiation, because vortex-antivortex dissociation is dramatically suppressed in 2D superconducting condensates oscillating at high frequencies.

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FormulaReported Tc (K)Pressure (GPa)Type
La1.72Sr0.28CuO4

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7Pressure not reportedunknown
La1.80Sr0.20CuO4

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5Pressure not reportedunknown

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