We have experimentally investigated the fluxon dynamics in a narrow Bi2Sr2CaCu2O 8+d stack with junction length L ∼1.8 µm. As an evidence of high-frequency excitation by a collective cavity mode, under an (in-plane) external magnetic field, the current-voltage characteristics show prominent Fiske steps with the corresponding resonance frequencies of 75-305 GHz. Further study of flux-flow resistance oscillation with various c-axis currents clarifies the correlation with Fiske steps by distinguishing two different regions i.e., static flux-flow region at low bias current level and dynamic Fiske step region at high bias current level. PACS numbers: 72.30.+q, 74.25.Qt, 85.25.Cp In stacked Bi 2 Sr 2 CaCu 2 O 8+d (BSCCO) intrinsic Josephson junctions (IJJs), the mutual interaction between junctions is expected since the superconducting layers, with the layer thickness d = 0.3 nm, are much thinner than the London penetration depth λ L = 170 nm 1 . Under the applied magnetic field parallel to the layers, Josephson vortices in a stack form lattice configurations that depend on a constant phase shift between neighboring layers, ranging from 0 for the rectangular lattice to π for the triangular lattice (see Fig. 1
(a))2,3,4 . Under the appropriate conditions, the fluxon lattice will excite the two-dimensional cavity modes in N stacked junctions, leading to the emission of electromagnetic wave with characteristic frequency f nm ≈ mc n /2L (c n is the phase velocity of electromagnetic wave, L is the junction length, m (=1, 2, 3,. . . ) denotes L-direction mode, and n (=1, 2, 3,. . . N ) denotes the stacking direction mode)5 . The c n is given bywith the Josephson penetration depth λ J , the coupling parameter S, the junction number N and the Josephson plasma frequency ω pl 1,2,5 . Among the N different modes along the stacking direction, the mode with the lowest velocity c N is usually stimulated by a triangular vortex lattice; while for the mode with the highest velocity c 1 , a rectangular lattice is favorable 6,7 . Being driven by a c-axis bias current, the moving fluxon lattice generates flux-flow resistance (FFR) in the junctions. Recent experimental 8,9,10 and numerical 11,12 studies show that the motion of traveling fluxon lattice in the layers is reflected into the periodic oscillation of FFR under the low bias current by considering the dynamical matching between the vortex lattice and the sample edges. The H 0 /2-period oscillation of FFR is interpreted as a result of the formation of triangular lattice in a longjunction stack, where H 0 is the field for adding one flux quantum per one junction (H 0 ≡ Φ 0 /Ls, Φ 0 being the flux quantum and s the layer periodicity along the c−axis i.e. 1.5 nm) 8,11 . Recent studies indicate that when the junction size is reduced down to a few µm and approaches the short-junction stack limit (L < λ J ), the oscillation period becomes predominantly H 0 rather than H 0 /2 due to the deformation of the Josephson vortex lattice by strong interaction with junction edges 9,10 . The res...