Influence of length on the noise delayed switching of long Josephson junctions

International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2857-2862

  Fedorov, K G ^a   Pankratov, A L ^a   Spagnolo, B ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR PHYSICS OF MICROSTRUCTURES   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Long Josephson junctions; Noise delayed decay; Thermal fluctuations

Indexed keywords

SINE-GORDON EQUATION; WHITE NOISE;

EFFECT OF NOISE; LONG JOSEPHSON JUNCTIONS; NOISE DELAYED DECAY; PENETRATION LENGTH; SINE GORDON MODEL; SMALL NOISE INTENSITY; THERMAL FLUCTUATIONS; TRANSIENT DYNAMICS;

JOSEPHSON JUNCTION DEVICES;

EID: 49549103923     PISSN: 02181274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218127408022111     Document Type: Article

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