Microwave Enhancement of Phase Slip Rate in Quasi One-Dimensional Superconducting Nanowires

Details Microwave Enhancement of Phase Slip Rate in Quasi One-Dimensional Superconducting Nanowires Microwave Enhancement of Phase Slip Rate in Quasi One-Dimensional Superconducting Nanowires

2011-04-25

arxiv.org/abs/1104.4744v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

26 pages, 14 figures, 1 table

Scientific paper

We study current-voltage (V-I) characteristics of short superconducting nanowires of length ~ 100 nm exposed to microwave radiation of frequencies between 100 MHz and 15 GHz. The radiation causes a decrease of the average switching current of the wire. This suppression of the switching current is modeled assuming that there is one-to-one correspondence between Little's phase slips and the experimentally observed switching events. At some critical power P* of the radiation a dissipative dynamic superconducting state occurs as an extra step on the V-I curve. It is identified as a phase slip center (PSC). With the dependence of the switching currents and the standard deviations observed at the transitions (i) from a constant supercurrent state to a normal state and (ii) from a constant superconducting state to a PSC state, we conclude that both of the two types of the switching events are triggered by the same microscopic event, namely a single Little's phase slip. We show that the Skocpol-Beasely-Tinkham model is not applicable to our microwave-driven phase slip centers, since it leads to an unphysical small estimated value of the size of the dissipative core of the PSC. Through the analysis of the witching current distributions at a sufficiently low temperature, we also present evidence that the quantum phase slip play a role in switching events under microwaves.

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