Evidence of a nonequilibrium distribution of quasiparticles in the microwave response of a superconducting aluminum resonator

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 112, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  De Visser, P J ^a,b   Goldie, D J ^c   Diener, P ^a   Withington, S ^c   Baselmans, J J A ^a   Klapwijk, T M ^b  

^a SRON NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SPACE RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84894487027     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.047004     Document Type: Article

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