Polarization effects induced by a magnetic field in intrinsically granular superconductors

Based on the previously suggested model of nanoscale dislocation-induced Josephson junctions and their arrays, we study the magnetic-field-induced electric polarization effects in intrinsically granular superconductors. In addition to the new phenomenon of chemomagnetoelectricity, the model also predicts a few other interesting effects, including charge analogs of Meissner paramagnetism (at low fields) and a "fishtail" anomaly (at high fields). The conditions under which these effects can be experimentally measured in nonstoichiometric high-T-c superconductors are discussed. (c) 2005 Pleiades Publishing, Inc.