Thermal escape from zero-voltage states in hysteretic superconducting interferometers

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 67, Issue 22, 2003, Pages

  Grønbech Jensen, Niels ^a,b   Thompson, Daniel B ^a   Cirillo, Matteo ^c   Cosmelli, Carlo ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^d SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONDUCTANCE; CONDUCTOR; ENERGY; INTERFEROMETER; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MODEL; MOTION; SUPERCONDUCTOR; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0042705043     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.67.224505     Document Type: Article

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