Tailoring Josephson coupling through superconductivity-induced nonequilibrium

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 13, 2004, Pages

  Giazotto, F ^a   Heikkila T T ^b   Taddei, F ^a   Fazio, Rosario ^a   Pekola, J P ^b   Beltram, F ^a  

^a SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE   (Italy)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); COOLING; DIFFUSION IN SOLIDS; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; FREQUENCIES; GREEN'S FUNCTION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS; TUNING;

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; SUPERCURRENT SUPPRESSION; ULTRAFAST CURRENT AMPLIFIERS; WEAK LINKS;

JOSEPHSON JUNCTION DEVICES;

EID: 2342525752     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.137001     Document Type: Article

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