Sharp superconductor-insulator transition in short wires

Physica C: Superconductivity and its Applications

Volumn 468, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 341-349

  Meidan, Dganit ^a   Oreg, Yuval ^a   Refael, Gil ^b   Smith, Robert A ^c  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fluctuations; Phase slips; Superconducting wires

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON TUNNELING; JOSEPHSON JUNCTION DEVICES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLYBDENUM COMPOUNDS; NANOWIRES; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS;

COOPER PAIR TUNNELING; JOSEPHSON-LIKE SYSTEMS; PHASE-SLIPS; SUPERCONDUCTOR-INSULATOR TRANSITION;

METAL INSULATOR TRANSITION;

EID: 39649103396     PISSN: 09214534     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physc.2007.09.019     Document Type: Article

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