Hysteretic current–voltage characteristics and Coulomb blockade in 1D-arrays of Josephson junctions

2000 ◽  
Vol 280 (1-4) ◽  
pp. 414-415 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Agren ◽  
Jan Johansson ◽  
Karin Andersson ◽  
David Haviland
1996 ◽  
Vol 10 (22) ◽  
pp. 1095-1102 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.K. CHATTAH ◽  
C.B. BRIOZZO ◽  
O. OSENDA ◽  
M.O. CÁCERES

We analyze the influence of thermal noise on the Shapiro steps appearing in the current-voltage characteristics of Josephson junctions. We solve the Fokker-Planck equation describing the system by a path integral method in the steepest-descent approximation, previously applied to the stochastic resonance problem. We obtain the Asymptotic Time-Periodic Distribution Pas(ϕ, t), where ϕ∈[0, 2π] and compute from it the voltage [Formula: see text], constructing the I-V characteristics. We find a defined “softening” of the Shapiro steps as temperature increases, for values of the system parameters in the experimentally accessible range.


1980 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. K. Jain ◽  
J. E. Lukens ◽  
Kin Li ◽  
R. D. Sandell ◽  
C. Varmazis

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