Shot-noise-driven escape in hysteretic Josephson junctions
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
2009-11-11 v1 Superconductivity
Abstract
We have measured the influence of shot noise on hysteretic Josephson junctions initially in macroscopic quantum tunnelling (MQT) regime. Escape threshold current into the resistive state decreases monotonically with increasing average current through the scattering conductor, which is another tunnel junction. Escape is predominantly determined by excitation due to the wide-band shot noise. This process is equivalent to thermal activation (TA) over the barrier at temperatures up to about four times above the critical temperature of the superconductor. The presented TA model is in excellent agreement with the experimental results.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0502446,
title = {Shot-noise-driven escape in hysteretic Josephson junctions},
author = {J. P. Pekola and T. E. Nieminen and M. Meschke and J. M. Kivioja and A. O. Niskanen and J. J. Vartiainen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0502446},
year = {2009}
}