Abstract
The 1/ f voltage noise in bulk polycrystalline high-temperature superconductors (HTSC) under bias current and magnetic field has its origin in the noise current-dependence of the grain boundary junctions (GBJs), due in turn to the correlated effects of junction critical current and normal resistance fluctuations. The analogy between the results obtained by varying the bias current through the specimen and those performed with temperature as variable is evidenced. The noise maxima obtained in both sets of measurements turn out to be caused by the junction critical current fluctuations, which dominate when the currents flowing through the GBJs are close to the Josephson critical current. The anti-phase correlation between the normal resistance and the critical current fluctuations is responsible for the monotonical decrease of the noise at constant bias current, with the temperature exceeding the value corresponding to the noise maximum. In contrast, varying the bias current at fixed temperature, the voltage noise exhibits a local minimum followed by an increasing tendency after passing through the maximum.
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