Eur. Phys. J. B 77, 109-113 (2010)
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2010-00241-0

Exploring modulated amplitudes in the resistive regime of a one-dimensional superconductor

Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, 411021 Pune, India

Corresponding author: ^a a.bhattacharyay@iiserpune.ac.in

Received: 27 February 2010
Revised: 12 April 2010
Published online: 6 August 2010

Abstract

We propose a new method to explore the modulated amplitude associated with formation of phase slip centers in a one-dimensional superconductor. With this method we probe finite amplitude modulations that generally induce transitions between different metastable superconducting phases. We derive a central relationship between the modulated amplitude of the SC phase and corresponding electrochemical potential and this relation captures various dynamic and static solutions in closed analytic form.