On the classical model for microwave induced escape from a Josephson washboard potential

Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics

Volumn 374, Issue 28, 2010, Pages 2827-2830

  Blackburn, James A ^a   Cirillo, Matteo ^b   Grønbech Jensen, Niels ^c  

^a WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Josephson junction; RCSJ model; Resonant activation; Washboard potential

Indexed keywords

JOSEPHSON JUNCTION DEVICES; LOW TEMPERATURE TESTING; QUANTUM OPTICS; TEMPERATURE;

JOSEPHSON-JUNCTION; LOW TEMPERATURE EXPERIMENTS; MACROSCOPIC QUANTUM TUNNELING; MICROWAVE-INDUCED; QUANTUM MECHANICAL; RCSJ MODEL; RESONANT ACTIVATION; WASHBOARD POTENTIAL;

LOW TEMPERATURE PHENOMENA;

EID: 77953285368     PISSN: 03759601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physleta.2010.04.077     Document Type: Article

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