Single and multiple superconducting weak-link systems

Using the one-dimensional Ginzburg-Landau equation and the boundary conditions of Zaitsev, we have evaluated the order parameters in single and multiple weak-link systems. From this information the current-phase characteristics were computed and it was found that Josephson-type behavior occurs for an intermediate range of link parameters. Other pertinent data, including associated thermodynamic free energies of the various solutions, have been obtained. © 1975 Plenum Publishing Corporation.