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    Resonant Cavity Modes in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+x Intrinsic Josephson Junction Stacks
    (Amer Physical Soc, 2019) Zhang, Huili; Wieland, Raphael; Chen, Wei; Kizilaslan, Olcay; Ishida, Shigeyuki; Han, Chao; Tian, Wanghao
    We report on a detailed investigation of terahertz-emission properties related to resonant cavity modes. We discuss data for an underdoped and an optimally doped Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+x (BSCCO) intrinsic junction stack having the same geometry. At high bias, in the presence of a hot spot, the emission frequency seems to be continuously tunable by changing the bias current and the bath temperature. By contrast, at low bias the emission frequencies f(e) are remarkably discrete and temperature independent for both stacks. The values of f(e) point to the formation of (0, m) cavity modes with m = 3 to 6. The total voltage V across the stack varies much stronger than f(e), and there seems to be an excess voltage indicating groups of junctions that are unlocked. For the case of the underdoped stack we perform intensive numerical simulations based on coupled sine Gordon equations combined with heat-diffusion equations. Many overall features can be reproduced well and point to an unexpected large value of the in-plane resistivity. However, unlike in experiment, in simulations the different resonant modes strongly overlap. The reason for this discrepancy is presently unclear.
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    Self-Mixing Spectra of Terahertz Emitters Based on Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+? Intrinsic Josephson-Junction Stacks
    (Amer Physical Soc, 2017) Huang, Ya; Sun, Hancong; An, Deyue; Zhou, Xianjing; Ji, Min; Rudau, Fabian; Wieland, Raphael
    Josephson junctions can serve as mixers for electromagnetic radiation, producing difference frequencies vertical bar mf(s)-nf(LO)vertical bar of the signal frequency f(s) and the local oscillator frequency f(LO), where the latter can be provided by ac Josephson currents, and m and n are natural numbers. In order to obtain a better understanding of the purity of the terahertz radiation generated by stacks of intrinsic Josephson junctions (IJJs), we study self-mixing-i.e., f(s) is also produced by Josephson currents inside the stacks-in the difference-frequency range between 0.1 and 3.0 GHz. Simultaneously, we perform off-chip terahertz emission detection and transport measurements. We find that at high-bias currents, when a hot spot has formed in the stack, the power level of self-mixing can be low and sometimes is even absent at the terahertz emission peak, pointing to a good phase locking among all IJJs. By contrast, at low-bias currents where no hot spot exists, the self-mixing products are pronounced even if the terahertz emission peaks are strong. The mixing products at high operation temperature, at which the temperature variation within the stack is moderate, are minor, indicating that the low junction resistance, perhaps in combination with the lowered Josephson critical current density, may play a similar role for synchronization as the hot spot does at low temperature. While these observations are helpful for the task to synchronize thousands of IJJs, the observation of self-mixing in general may offer a simple method in evaluating the coherence of terahertz radiation produced by the IJJ stacks.
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    Terahertz emission from mutually synchronized standalone Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+x intrinsic-Josephson-junction stacks
    (Amer Physical Soc, 2024) Wieland, Raphael; Kizilaslan, Olcay; Kinev, Nickolay; Dorsch, Eric; Guenon, Stefan; Song, Ziyu; Wei, Zihan
    Suitably patterned single crystals made of the cuprate superconductor Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+x (BSCCO), intrinsically forming a stack of Josephson junctions, can generate electromagnetic radiation in the lower terahertz regime. Because of Joule heating, the emission power of single stacks seems to be limited to values below 100 mu W. To increase the radiation power, mutually synchronized arrays situated on the same BSCCO base crystal have been studied. A maximum power of almost 1 mW has been achieved by synchronization of three stacks. Mutual electromagnetic interactions via a connecting BSCCO base crystal have been considered essential for synchronization, but the approach still suffers from Joule heating, preventing the synchronization of more than three stacks. In the present paper we show, on the basis of two emitting stacks, that mutual synchronization can also be achieved by standalone stacks contacted by gold layers and sharing only a common gold layer. Compared with BSCCO base crystals, the gold layers have a much higher thermal conductivity and their patterning is not very problematic. We analyze our results in detail, showing that the two oscillators exhibit phase correlations over a range of +/- 0.4 GHz relative to their center frequencies, which we studied mainly between 745 and 765 GHz. However, we also find that strong phase gradients in the beams radiated from both the mutually locked stacks and the unlocked stacks play an important role and, presumably, diminish the detected emission power due to destructive interference. We speculate that the effect arises from higher-order cavity modes that are excited in the individual stacks. Our main message is that the mutual interaction provided by a common gold layer may open new possibilities for relaxing the Joule-heating problem, allowing the synchronization of a higher number of stacks. The approach may also allow one to synchronize several stacks that are comparatively small in size and less prone to the strong phase gradients we observed. Our findings may boost attempts to substantially increase the output power levels of BSCCO terahertz oscillators.