Quantum dissociation of a vortex-antivortex pair in a long josephson junction

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 25, 2003, Pages

  Fistul, M V ^a   Wallraff, A ^a,b   Koval, Y ^a   Lukashenko, A ^a   Malomed, B A ^c   Ustinov, A V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CRITICAL CURRENT DENSITY (SUPERCONDUCTIVITY); DISSOCIATION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ELECTRON TUNNELING; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; NUCLEATION; PROBABILITY; QUANTUM THEORY; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; THERMAL EFFECTS; VORTEX FLOW;

CURRENT DISTRIBUTION; PINNING POTENTIAL; QUANTUM TUNNELING; VORTEX-ANTIVORTEX (VAV) PAIR;

JOSEPHSON JUNCTION DEVICES;

EID: 0942267201     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.257004     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. M. Tinkham, Introduction to Superconductivity (McGraw-Hill, New York, 1996), 2nd ed.
2. M.H. Devoret, J.M. Martinis, and J. Clarke, Phys. Rev. Lett., 55, 1908 (1985); 10.1103/PhysRevLett.55.1908
3. J.M. Martinis, M.H. Devoret, and J. Clarke, Phys. Rev. B 35, 4682 (1987); 10.1103/PhysRevB.35.4682
4. M.H. Devoret, D. Esteve, C. Urbina, J. Martinis, A. Cleland, and J. Clarke, in Quantum Tunneling in Condensed Media (North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1992).
5. A. Wallraff, T. Duty, A. Lukashenko, and A.V. Ustinov, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 037003 (2003).10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.037003
6. Y. Yu, S. Han, X. Chu, S. Chu, and Z. Wang, Science 296, 889 (2002); 10.1126/science.1069452
7. J.M. Martinis, S. Nam, J. Aumentado, and C. Urbina, Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 117901 (2002); 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.117901
8. C.H. van der Wal, A.C.J. ter Haar, F.K. Wilhelm, R.N. Schouten, C.J.P.M. Harmans, T.P. Orlando, S. Lloyd, and J.E. Mooij, Science 290, 773 (2000); 10.1126/science.290.5492.773
9. J.R. Friedman, V. Patel, W. Chen, S.K. Tolpygo, and J.E. Lukens, Nature (London) 406, 43 (2000).10.1038/35017505
10. A.V. Ustinov, Physica (Amsterdam) 123D, 315 (1998).
11. M.G. Castellano, G. Torrioli, C. Cosmelli, A. Constantini, F. Chiarello, P. Carelli, G. Rotoli, M. Cirillo, and R.L. Kautz, Phys. Rev. B 54, 15?417 (1996).10.1103/PhysRevB.54.15417
12. M.V. Fistul, M.G. Castellano, M. Cirillo, G. Torrioli, A. Wallraff, and AV. Ustinov, Physica (Amsterdam)PHYBE3 284B–288B, 585 (2000).
13. T. Kato and M. Imada, J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 65, 2963 (1996).
14. A. Schnirman, E. Ben-Jacob, and B. Malomed, Phys. Rev. B 56, 14?677 (1997).10.1103/PhysRevB.56.14677
15. A. Wallraff, Y. Koval, M. Levitchev, M.V. Fistul, and A.V. Ustinov, J. Low Temp. Phys. 118, 543 (2000).10.1023/A:1004674908169
16. K. Maki, Phys. Rev. Lett. 39, 46 (1977).10.1103/PhysRevLett.39.46
17. I.V. Krive, BA. Malomed, and AS. Rozhavsky, Phys. Rev. B 42, 273 (1990).10.1103/PhysRevB.42.273
18. T. Kato, J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 69, 2735 (2000).
19. H.S.J. van der Zant, J.F.C. Fritschy, T.P. Orlando, and J.E. Mooij, Phys. Rev. Lett., 66, 2531 (1991); 10.1103/PhysRevLett.66.2531
20. A. van Oudenaarden, S.J.K. Vàrdy, and J.E. Mooij, Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4257 (1996).10.1103/PhysRevLett.77.4257
21. A. Wallraff, A. Lukashenko, J. Lisenfeld, A. Kemp, Y. Koval, M.V. Fistul, and A.V. Ustinov, Nature (London) 425, 155 (2003).10.1038/nature01826
22. N. Gronbech-Jensen, P.S. Lomdahl, and M.R. Samuelsen, Phys. Rev. B 43, 12?799 (1991).10.1103/PhysRevB.43.12799
23. N. Martucciello and R. Monaco, Phys. Rev. B 54, 9050 (1996).10.1103/PhysRevB.54.9050
24. Y. Koval, A. Wallraff, M. Fistul, N. Thyssen, H. Kohlstedt, and A.V. Ustinov, IEEE Trans. Appl. Supercond.ITASE9 9, 3957 (1999).10.1109/77.783894
25. A. Wallraff, A. Lukashenko, C. Coqui, A. Kemp, T. Duty, and A.V. Ustinov, Rev. Sci. Instrum. 74, 3740 (2003).10.1063/1.1588752
26. We do not consider here very long Josephson junctions where even in the absence of magnetic field fluctuation-induced vortex-antivortex pairs are generated in the Josephson junction