Quasipotential and the stability of phase lock in nonhysteretic Josephson junctions
- 1 November 1994
- journal article
- conference paper
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 76 (9) , 5538-5544
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.357156
Abstract
The principle of minimum available noise energy is used to calculate the quasipotential over the state space of a nonhysteretic Josephson junction driven by a rf bias. This potential surface provides an intuitive picture of the dynamics of phase lock and defines a stability parameter, the activation energy for thermally induced phase slippage, which determines the optimum operating conditions for a proposed programmable voltage standard.This publication has 14 references indexed in Scilit:
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