Physics – Condensed Matter – Superconductivity
Scientific paper
2011-01-04
Phys. Rev. B 83, 184503 (2011)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Superconductivity
40 pages, 20 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.83.184503
Microwave Fabry-Perot resonators containing nonlinear mesoscopic elements (such as superconducting nanowires) can be used to explore many-body circuit QED. Here, we report on observations of a superconductor-normal pulsing regime in microwave (GHz) coplanar waveguide resonators consisting of superconducting MoGe films interrupted by a gap that is bridged by one or more suspended superconducting nanowires. This regime, which involve MHz-frequency oscillations in the amplitude of the supercurrent in the resonator, are achieved when the steady-state amplitude of the current in the driven resonator exceeds the critical current of the nanowires. Thus we are able to determine the temperature dependence of the critical current, which agrees well with the corresponding Bardeen formula. The pulsing regime manifests itself as an apparent "crater" on top of the fundamental Lorentzian peak of the resonator. Once the pulsing regime is achieved at a fixed drive power, however, it remains stable for a range of drive frequencies corresponding to subcritical steady state currents in the resonator. We develop a phenomenological model of resonator-nanowire systems, from which we are able to obtain a quantitative description of the amplitude oscillations and also, inter alia, to investigate thermal relaxation processes in superconducting nanowires. For the case of resonators comprising two parallel nanowires and subject to an external magnetic field, we find field-driven oscillations of the onset power for the amplitude oscillations, as well as the occurrence (for values of the magnetic field that strongly frustrate the nanowires) of a distinct steady state in which the pulsing is replaced by stochastic amplitude-fluctuations. We conclude by giving a brief discussion of how circuit-QED-based systems have the potential to facilitate understanding of quantum phase-slips in superconducting nanowires.
Bezryadin Alexey
Brenner Matthew W.
Eckstein James N.
Goldbart Paul M.
Gopalakrishnan Sarang
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