Possible Glassiness in a Periodic Long-Range Josephson Array
arXiv:cond-mat/9502018 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.75.713
Abstract
We present an analytic study of a periodic Josephson array with long-range interactions in a transverse magnetic field. We find that this system exhibits a first-order transition into a phase characterized by an extensive number of states separated by barriers that scale with the system size; the associated discontinuity is small in the limit of weak applied field, thus permitting an explicit analysis in this regime.
4 pages, 2 Postscript figures in a separate file.