Achieving the threshold regime with an over-screened Josephson junction
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
2009-11-13 v2 Superconductivity
Abstract
We demonstrate that by utilizing an over-screened Josephson junction as a noise detector it is possible to achieve the threshold regime, whereby the tails of the fluctuating current distribution are measured. This situation is realized by placing the Josephson junction and mesoscopic conductor in an external circuit with very low impedance. In the underdamped limit, over-screening the junction inhibits the energy diffusion in the junction, effectively creating a tunable activation barrier to the dissipative state. As a result, the activation rate is qualitatively different from the Arrhenius form.
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@article{arxiv.0808.3465,
title = {Achieving the threshold regime with an over-screened Josephson junction},
author = {Eugene V. Sukhorukov and Andrew N. Jordan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0808.3465},
year = {2009}
}
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4 pages, 1 figure; published version