Vortex-induced dissipation in narrow current-biased thin-film superconducting strips

Details Vortex-induced dissipation in narrow current-biased thin-film superconducting strips Vortex-induced dissipation in narrow current-biased thin-film superconducting strips

2011-02-24

arxiv.org/abs/1102.5130v1

Physical Review B 83 (2011) 144526

Physics

Condensed Matter

Superconductivity

9 pages, 3 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.83.144526

A vortex crossing a thin-film superconducting strip from one edge to the other, perpendicular to the bias current, is the dominant mechanism of dissipation for films of thickness d on the order of the coherence length XI; and of width w much narrower than the Pearl length LAMBDA >> w >> XI. At high bias currents, I* < I < Ic, the heat released by the crossing of a single vortex suffices to create a belt-like normal-state region across the strip, resulting in a detectable voltage pulse. Here Ic is the critical current at which the energy barrier vanishes for a single vortex crossing. The belt forms along the vortex path and causes a transition of the entire strip into the normal state. We estimate I* to be roughly Ic/3. Further, we argue that such "hot" vortex crossings are the origin of dark counts in photon detectors, which operate in the regime of metastable superconductivity at currents between I* and Ic. We estimate the rate of vortex crossings and compare it with recent experimental data for dark counts. For currents below I*, i.e., in the stable superconducting but resistive regime, we estimate the amplitude and duration of voltage pulses induced by a single vortex crossing.

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