Testing the Kibble-Zurek scenario with annular Josephson tunnel junctions

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 16, 2000, Pages 3452-3455

  Kavoussanaki, E ^a   Monaco, R ^b,c   Rivers, R J ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL CURRENT DENSITY (SUPERCONDUCTIVITY); ENERGY GAP; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; GROUND STATE; HIGH TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTORS; JOSEPHSON JUNCTION DEVICES; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OXIDE SUPERCONDUCTORS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SUPERCONDUCTING TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; SUPERFLUID HELIUM; TUNNEL JUNCTIONS;

ANNULAR JOSEPHSON TUNNEL JUNCTION; CONDENSED MATTER SYSTEM; KIBBLE-ZUREK ANALYSIS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0034301596     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.3452     Document Type: Article

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