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The dc and ac magnetic properties of a melt-textured YBa2Cu3Ox ring with a perpendicular crack is studied. It is found that the crack behaves as a resistively shunted very long Josephson junction. However, besides the expected edge currents, certain inner currents have to occur in the junction. This anomaly may be a general feature of a very long junction with similar values of Josephson and London penetration depths, which is a case not yet studied theoretically.
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Chen et al. (2007) studied this question.
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