Journal of Log' Temperature Physics, Vol. 75, Nos. 5/6, 1989
Quantum Coherence and Phase Transitions in
Granular Superconductors with Dissipation.
I. Ordered Arrays
S. V. Panyukov and A. D. Zaikin
I. E. Tamm Department of Theoretical Physics, P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the USSR
Academy of Sciences, Moscow, USSR
(Received December 20, 1988)
We investigate the effect of dissipative currents on a superconducting phase
transition in two- and three-dimensional granular arrays. We find the corre-
sponding phase diagrams and show that, depending on dissipation, both
long-range and local quantum fluctuations may be effective in destroying the
global phase coherence. For large values of charging-to-Josephson coupling
energy ratio and at T= O, we find the universal critical resistance Rc only for
three dimensional arrays while for two dimensional ones R~ 1 diverges
logarithmically with increasing of the grain charging energy. For large values
of a Josephson coupling energy, quantum phase slip effects play the main role
and lead to the universal critical resistance in both cases. We also investigate
the effect of dissipation on the critical temperature of the XY model phase
transition and show that strong dissipation is extremely effective in suppressing
quantum effects.
1. INTRODUCTION
Quantum effects in Josephson junction arrays and granular supercon-
ductors may play an important role. It was shown in a number of papers
(see, for instance, Refs. 1-4) that these effects should be taken into account
if the grain charging energy Eo= (2e)2/C (C is the grain capacitance) is
comparable with (or larger than) the Josephson coupling energy Ej between
the nearest grains. In this case quantum fluctuations reduce the tendency
to superconducting ordering. For rather small values of the ratio Ej/EQ,
this effect leads to the absence of long-range phase coherence (and thus to
the absence of superconductivity) even at T = 0.
During last several years, investigations of qualitatively new macro-
scopic quantum effects in single Josephson junctions are of considerable
interest. For instance the effect of macroscopic quantum tunneling of the
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