Inherent Stochasticity of Superconductor-Resistor Switching Behavior in Nanowires

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 101, Issue 20, 2008, Pages

  Shah, Nayana ^a   Pekker, David ^a   Goldbart, Paul M ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC WIRE; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOWIRES; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

HYSTERETIC CURRENTS; LOCAL HEATING; PHASE SLIPS; RESISTIVE SWITCHING; STOCHASTIC DYNAMICS; STOCHASTICITY; SUPERCONDUCTING NANOWIRES; SWITCHING BEHAVIORS; SWITCHING CURRENTS; SWITCHING TIMES;

SWITCHING;

EID: 56249116549     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.207001     Document Type: Article

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