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Title: Instabilities of the normal state in current-biased narrow superconducting strips

Journal Article · · Physical Review B
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  1. Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Moscow (Russian Federation). L.D. Landau Inst. for Theoretical Physics; Max Planck Society, Dresden (Germany). Max Planck Inst. for the Physics of Complex Systems
  2. National Research Council (CNR), Rome (Italy). Inst. for Superconductors, Innovative Materials and Devices (CNR-SPIN)
  3. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Materials Science Division
  4. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Materials Science Division ; Northern Illinois Univ., DeKalb, IL (United States). Dept. of Physics
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We study the current-voltage characteristic of narrow superconducting strips in the gapless regime near the critical temperature in the framework of the Ginzburg-Landau model. Our focus is on its instabilities occurring at high current biases. The latter are consequences of dynamical states with periodic phase-slip events in space and time. We analyze their structure and derive the value of the reentrance current at the onset of the instability of the normal state. It is expressed in terms of the kinetic coefficient of the time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau equation and calculated numerically.

Research Organization:
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-06CH11357
OSTI ID:
1601358
Journal Information:
Physical Review B, Vol. 101, Issue 1; ISSN 2469-9950
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 1 work
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