The Superconductor-to-Insulator Transition in Resistively-Shunted Josephson-Junction Arrays
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This essay describes the, analytical theory, experimental observations and potential applications of superconductor‐to‐insulator quantum phase transitions in arrays of resistively‐shunted Josephson junctions and superconducting islands dissipatively‐coupled to an external source of single‐particle excitations.
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