@Article{Shah_etal2008,
author="Shah, Nayana
and Pekker, David
and Goldbart, Paul M.",
title="Inherent stochasticity of superconductor-resistor switching behavior in nanowires",
journal="Phys. Rev. Lett.",
year="2008",
volume="101",
pages="207001(1 to 4)",
optkeywords="superconducting nanowires; phase-slip; self-heating effect; temperature profile",
abstract="We study the stochastic dynamics of superconductive-resistive switching in hysteretic current-biased superconducting nanowires undergoing phase-slip fluctuations. We evaluate the mean switching time using the master-equation formalism, and hence obtain the distribution of switching currents. We find that as the temperature is reduced this distribution initially broadens; only at lower temperatures does it show the narrowing with cooling naively expected for phase slips that are thermally activated. We also find that although several phase-slip events are generally necessary to induce switching, there is an experimentally accessible regime of temperatures and currents for which just one single phase-slip event is sufficient to induce switching, via the local heating it causes.",
optnote="exported from refbase (https://db.rplab.ru/refbase/show.php?record=919), last updated on Sun, 08 Jun 2014 22:36:34 -0500",
doi="10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.207001",
opturl="https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.207001"
}