Characterization of escape times of Josephson junctions for signal detection

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Addesso, Paolo ^a   Filatrella, Giovanni ^b   Pierro, Vincenzo ^b  

^a Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Engineering ^*  (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SANNIO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALL-SKY; ASTRONOMICAL DETECTION; DETECTION PERFORMANCE; ERROR PROBABILITIES; ESCAPE TIME; EXPERIMENTAL SETUP; GEOMETRIC RESONANCE; INPUT SIGNAL; JOSEPHSON JUNCTIONS; LIKELIHOOD RATIO TESTS; LIKELIHOOD RATIOS; LOW FREQUENCY; LOW SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; PHASE ESTIMATION; PHYSICAL BEHAVIORS; PLASMA FREQUENCIES; RESONANT REGIONS; SAMPLE MEANS; SINUSOIDAL CURRENTS; SINUSOIDAL SIGNALS; STOCHASTIC RESONANCES; SUBTERAHERTZ; THEORETICAL BOUNDS; UNKNOWN PARAMETERS; WAVE FORMS; WEAK SIGNALS;

DETECTORS; FILTER BANKS; GEOMETRY; JOSEPHSON JUNCTION DEVICES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PLASMA WAVES; QUANTUM OPTICS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

SIGNAL DETECTION;

EID: 84856530599     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.85.016708     Document Type: Article

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