Magnetic flux noise in MgB2 thin films

Orjan Festin; Peter Svedlindh; Sung-Ik Lee

doi:10.1117/12.490189

9 May 2003 Flux noise in MgB₂ films

Orjan Festin, Peter Svedlindh, Sung-Ik Lee

Proceedings Volume 5112, Noise as a Tool for Studying Materials; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.490189
Event: SPIE's First International Symposium on Fluctuations and Noise, 2003, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States

Abstract

We have performed flux noise and AC-susceptibility measurements on two 400 nm thick MgB₂ films. Both measurement techniques give information about the vortex dynamics in the sample, and hence the superconducting transition, and can be linked to each other through the fluctuation-dissipation-theorem. The transition widths for the two films are 0.3 and 0.8 K, respectively, and the transitions show a multi step-like behavior in the AC-susceptibility measurements. The same phenomenon is observed in the flux noise measurements through a change in the frequency dependence of the spectral density at each step in the transition. The results are discussed and interpreted in terms of vortices carrying an arbitrary fraction of a flux quantum as well as in terms of different macroscopic regions in the films having slightly different compositions, and hence, different critical temperatures.

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Orjan Festin, Peter Svedlindh, and Sung-Ik Lee "Flux noise in MgB₂ films", Proc. SPIE 5112, Noise as a Tool for Studying Materials, (9 May 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.490189

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