The dynamics of the kink in curved large area Josephson junction

Tomasz Dobrowolski

doi:10.3934/dcdss.2011.4.1095

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2011, Volume 4, Issue 5: 1095-1105. Doi: 10.3934/dcdss.2011.4.1095

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The dynamics of the kink in curved large area Josephson junction

Tomasz Dobrowolski^1,

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Institute of Physics UP, Podchorążych 2, 30-084 Cracow

Received: July 31, 2009

Revised: November 30, 2009

Published: September 2011

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A formalism that allows description of the kink motion in an arbitrarily curved large area Josephson junction is proposed. A general formula for the lagrangian density that describes the curved Josephson junction, in small curvature regime, is obtained. Examples of propagation of the kink along the curved Josephson junction are considered.

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Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35C08; Secondary: 35Q99.

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