Phase Slips in Oscillatory Hair Bundles

Phase slips in superconducting films with constrictions

A system of two coplanar superconducting films seamlessly connected by a bridge is studied. We observe two distinct resistive transitions as the temperature is reduced. The first one, occurring in the films, shows some properties of the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition. The second apparent transition (which is in fact a crossover) is related to freezing out of thermally activate...

Deterministic phase slips in mesoscopic superconducting rings

The properties of one-dimensional superconductors are strongly influenced by topological fluctuations of the order parameter, known as phase slips, which cause the decay of persistent current in superconducting rings and the appearance of resistance in superconducting wires. Despite extensive work, quantitative studies of phase slips have been limited by uncertainty regarding the order paramete...

Quantum phase slips in superconducting nanowires.

We have measured the resistance vs temperature of more than 20 superconducting nanowires with nominal widths ranging from 10 to 22 nm and lengths from 100 nm to 1 microm. With decreasing cross-sectional areas, the wires display increasingly broad resistive transitions. The data are in very good agreement with a model that includes both thermally activated phase slips close to T(c) and quantum p...

Quantum phase slips in Josephson junction rings

G. Rastelli,1,2 I. M. Pop,3,4 and F. W. J. Hekking1 1Université Grenoble 1/CNRS, LPMMC UMR 5493, B.P. 166, 38042 Grenoble, France 2Fachbereich Physik, Universität Konstanz, D-78457 Konstanz, Germany 3Institut Néel, CNRS, and Université Joseph Fourier, B.P. 166, 38042 Grenoble, France 4Department of Applied Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA (Received 6 January 2012; rev...

Quantum phase slips in a confined geometry