Return current in hysteretic Josephson junctions: Experimental distribution in the thermal activation regime
Return current in hysteretic Josephson junctions: Experimental distribution in the thermal activation regime
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迟滞约瑟夫森结中的返回电流:热激活状态下的实验分布
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1999
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P. Carelli
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M. Castellano;G. Torrioli;F. Chiarello;C. Cosmelli;P. Carelli
We present an experimental study on the retrapping process of a hysteretic, high-quality Josephson junction; namely, we have measured the distribution of the values at which the junction switches back from the voltage state to the zero-voltage state, as a function of the applied magnetic field. While the opposite process (escape from the zero-voltage state) has been extensively studied in the past, both from the theoretical and the experimental point of view, little is found in the literature on the retrapping process. In terms of the tilted washboard potential, the process corresponds to the retrapping from the running state to a locked state in a potential well. The interest of the measurements is in the fact that the value of the return current can be directly related to the dissipation in the junction. While the deterministic behavior, experimentally measured through the I–V curve, appears to be in agreement with the theoretical predictions, even in minor details, the statistical behavior is strongly ...