Effects of level quantization on the supercurrent decay in Josephson junctions: The nonstationary case
- 1 April 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 41 (10) , 7341-7344
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.41.7341
Abstract
The effects of the presence of quantized energy levels in the problem of the (V=0)-state decay in Josephson junctions have been investigated. The analysis has been extended to the case of nonstationary conditions. As a result, the dependences of both the decay rate and the switching-current distribution on the bias current are strongly modified with respect to those obtained in stationary conditions. The investigation is carreid out for various working conditions and junction parameters.Keywords
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