Onset of an Inhomogeneous State in a Nonequilibrium Superconducting Film
- 21 November 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 39 (21) , 1365-1368
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.39.1365
Abstract
We discuss a phenomenological theory of the onset of an inhomogeneous state in a nonequilibrium superconducting film. The length scale of the initial instability is given by the geometric mean of the coherence length and an effective quasiparticle diffusion length.Keywords
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