Quantitative Study of Macroscopic Quantum Tunneling in a dc SQUID: A System with Two Degrees of Freedom

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 9, 2002, Pages

  Li, Shao Xiong ^a   Yu, Yang ^a   Zhang, Yu ^a   Qiu, Wei ^a   Han, Siyuan ^a   Wang, Zhen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; CRITICAL CURRENT DENSITY (SUPERCONDUCTIVITY); DAMPING; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); ELECTRON TUNNELING; JOSEPHSON JUNCTION DEVICES; LOGIC GATES; PROBABILITY; QUANTUM THEORY; SWITCHING; THERMAL EFFECTS;

QUANTUM TUNNELING; THERMAL ACTIVATION;

SQUIDS;

EID: 0037179430     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.098301     Document Type: Article

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