@Article{Tinkham_etal2003,
author="Tinkham, M.
and Free, J. U.
and Lau, C. N.
and Markovic, N.",
title="Hysteretic I--V curves of superconducting nanowires",
journal="Phys. Rev. B",
year="2003",
volume="68",
pages="134515(1 to 7)",
optkeywords="MoGe nanowires; self-heating effect",
abstract="Experimental I--V curves of superconducting MoGe nanowires show hysteresis for the thicker wires and none for the thinner wires. A rather quantitative account of these data for representative wires is obtained by numerically solving the one-dimensional heat flow equation to find a self-consistent distribution of temperature and local resistivity along the wire, using the measured linear resistance R(T) as input. This suggests that the retrapping current in the hysteretic I--V curves is primarily determined by heating effects, and not by the dynamics of phase motion in a tilted washboard potential as often assumed. Heating effects and thermal fluctuations from the low-resistance state to a high-resistance, quasinormal regime appear to set independent upper bounds for the switching current.",
optnote="exported from refbase (https://db.rplab.ru/refbase/show.php?record=918), last updated on Sun, 08 Jun 2014 22:18:36 -0500",
doi="10.1103/PhysRevB.68.134515",
opturl="https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.68.134515"
}