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Bulaevskii, L. N.; Graf, M. J.; Batista, C. D.; Kogan, V. G. |
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Vortex-induced dissipation in narrow current-biased thin-film superconducting strips |
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2011 |
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A vortex crossing a thin-film superconducting strip from one edge to the other, perpendicular to the bias current, is the dominant mechanism of dissipation for films of thickness d on the order of the coherence length ξ and of width w much narrower than the Pearl length Λâ‰<ab>wâ‰<ab>ξ. At high bias currents I*<I<Ic the heat released by the crossing of a single vortex suffices to create a belt-like normal-state region across the strip, resulting in a detectable voltage pulse. Here Ic is the critical current at which the energy barrier vanishes for a single vortex crossing. The belt forms along the vortex path and causes a transition of the entire strip into the normal state. We estimate I* to be roughly Ic/3. Furthermore, we argue that such “hot†vortex crossings are the origin of dark counts in photon detectors, which operate in the regime of metastable superconductivity at currents between I* and Ic. We estimate the rate of vortex crossings and compare it with recent experimental data for dark counts. For currents below I*, that is, in the stable superconducting but resistive regime, we estimate the amplitude and duration of voltage pulses induced by a single vortex crossing. |
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Kerman, Andrew J.; Yang, Joel K. W.; Molnar, Richard J.; Dauler, Eric A.; Berggren, Karl K. |
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Electrothermal feedback in superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors |
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2009 |
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Phys. Rev. B |
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We investigate the role of electrothermal feedback in the operation of superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs). It is found that the desired mode of operation for SNSPDs is only achieved if this feedback is unstable, which happens naturally through the slow electrical response associated with their relatively large kinetic inductance. If this response is sped up in an effort to increase the device count rate, the electrothermal feedback becomes stable and results in an effect known as latching, where the device is locked in a resistive state and can no longer detect photons. We present a set of experiments which elucidate this effect and a simple model which quantitatively explains the results. |
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Ciulin, V.; Carter, S. G.; Sherwin, M. S. |
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Terahertz optical mixing in biased GaAs single quantum wells |
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2004 |
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Phys. Rev. B |
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Su, M. Y.; Carter, S. G.; Sherwin, M. S. |
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Strong-field terahertz optical mixing in excitons |
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Smolyaninov, I. I.; Zayats, A. V.; Stanishevsky, A.; Davis, C. C. |
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Optical control of photon tunneling through an array of nanometer-scale cylindrical channels |
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2002 |
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Phys. Rev. B |
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