Thermally activated phase slips in superconducting nanowires
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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...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Physical Review B
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1098-0121,1550-235X
DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.78.144502