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Suppression of timing errors in short overdamped Josephson junctions

Statistical Mechanics 2009-11-10 v1 Superconductivity

Abstract

The influence of fluctuations and periodical driving on temporal characteristics of short overdamped Josephson junction is analyzed. We obtain the standard deviation of the switching time in the presence of a dichotomous driving force for arbitrary noise intensity and in the frequency range of practical interest. For sinusoidal driving the resonant activation effect has been observed. The mean switching time and its standard deviation have a minimum as a function of driving frequency. As a consequence the optimization of the system for fast operation will simultaneously lead to minimization of timing errors.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0409604,
  title  = {Suppression of timing errors in short overdamped Josephson junctions},
  author = {Andrey L. Pankratov and Bernardo Spagnolo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0409604},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

4 pages, 4 figures, in press in Physical Review Letters

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