Josephson junction as a detector of poissonian charge injection

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 20, 2004, Pages

  Pekola, J P ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); COMPUTER SIMULATION; DAMPING; ELECTRIC CHARGE; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OSCILLATIONS; PROBABILITY; Q FACTOR MEASUREMENT; RESONANCE; RESONATORS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; SQUIDS;

CURRENT DISTRIBUTION; FULL COUNTING STATISTICS (FCS); MACROSCOPIC QUANTUM TUNNELING (MQT); POISSON STATISTICS;

JOSEPHSON JUNCTION DEVICES;

EID: 12144271406     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.206601     Document Type: Article

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