Macroscopic quantum tunneling and resonant activation of current biased intrinsic Josephson junctions in Bi-2212

IEICE Transactions on Electronics

Volumn E90-C, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 599-604

  Sato, Shigeo ^a   Inomata, Kunihiro ^b   Kinjo, Mitsunaga ^c   Kitabatake, Nobuhiro ^a   Nakajima, Koji ^a   Wang, Huabing ^d   Hatano, Takeshi ^d  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Japan Science and Technology Agency   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

High Tc superconductor; Josephson junction; Macroscopic quantum tunneling; Qubit; Resonant activation

Indexed keywords

BISMUTH; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; MICROWAVES; QUANTUM THEORY; QUASICRYSTALS; RESONANT TUNNELING;

MACROSCOPIC TUNNELING; QUANTUM PROPERTY; QUANTUM TUNNELING; QUBITS; RESONANT ACTIVATION;

JOSEPHSON JUNCTION DEVICES;

EID: 33947280996     PISSN: 09168524     EISSN: 17451353     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ietele/e90-c.3.599     Document Type: Article

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