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Magnetic field dependences of critical current, resistance, and rectified voltage of asymmetric (half circles of different widths) and symmetrical (half circles of equal widths) aluminum rings close to the super-conducting transition were measured. All these dependences are periodic magnetic field functions with periods corresponding to the flux quantum in the ring. The periodic dependences of critical current measured in opposite directions were found to be close to each other for symmetrical rings and shifted with respect to each other by half the flux quantum in asymmetric rings with ratios between half circle widths of from 1.25 to 2. This shift of the dependences by a quarter of the flux quantum as the ring becomes asymmetric makes critical current anisotropic, which explains the effect of alternating current rectification observed for asymmetric rings. Shifts of the extrema of the periodic dependences of critical current by a quarter of the flux quantum directly contradict the results obtained by measuring asymmetric ring resistance oscillations, whose extrema are, as for symmetrical rings, observed at magnetic fluxes equal to an integer and a half of flux quanta.
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Original Russian Text © V.L. Gurtovoi, S.V. Dubonos, S.V. Karpiĭ, A.V. Nikulov, V.A. Tulin, 2007, published in Zhurnal Éksperimental’noĭ i Teoreticheskoĭ Fiziki, 2007, Vol. 132, No. 1, pp. 297–303.
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Gurtovoi, V.L., Dubonos, S.V., Karpiĭ, S.V. et al. Contradiction between the results of observations of resistance and critical current quantum oscillations in asymmetric superconducting rings. J. Exp. Theor. Phys. 105, 262–267 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1134/S106377610707059X
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