Macroscopic Quantum Tunneling of a Fluxon in a Long Josephson Junction

Journal of the Physical Society of Japan

Volumn 65, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 2963-2975

  Kato, Takeo ^a   Imada, Masatoshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Caldeira Leggett theory; Dissipation; Fluxon; Long Josephson junction; Macroscopic quantum coherence; Macroscopic quantum tunneling; Sine Gordon equation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030523815     PISSN: 00319015     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1143/JPSJ.65.2963     Document Type: Article

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