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Guarcello, C

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Noise phenomena and soliton dynamics in long Josephson junctions

2013

In this work we computationally explore the transient dynamics of a noisy Josephson junction (JJ). Principal purpose is to investigate the behavior of the lifetime of the superconductive state as a function of the system and noise source parameters. The relations between the emerging phenomena and the evolution of the JJ order parameter φ, that is the phase difference between the macroscopic wave functions describing the superconducting condensate in the two electrodes, is deeply investigated. We focus our interest on the switching events from the superconducting metastable state, and in particular on the mean escape time (MET). In the used model, a long JJ can be represented by a string co…

mean escape timebreatherwashboardGaussian noiseSettore FIS/03 - Fisica Della Materianon-Gaussian noisenoise enhanced stabilityLévysine-GordonJosephson junction; sine-Gordon; washboard; Lévy; Gaussian noise; non-Gaussian noise; soliton; breather; mean escape time; noise enhanced stability; resonant activationJosephson junctionresonant activationsoliton
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Lifetime of the superconductive state in long Josephson junctions in presence of non-Gaussian noise sources

2012

The effects of Lévy noise sources on the transient dynamics of long Josephson junctions (LJJ) are investigated in the presence of both a periodical current signal and a noise source with Gaussian, Cauchy-Lorentz or Levy-Smirnov probability distributions. In particular, by numerically integrating the Sine-Gordon equation, the mean escape time (MET) from the superconductive metastable state is obtained as a function both of the frequency of the periodical force and amplitude of the noise signal. We find resonant activation (RA) and noise enhanced stability (NES). Significative changes in RA and NES are observed by using Lévy noise sources with different statistics. MET is also studied as a fu…

Josephson junctionJosephson junction; Lévy noise; resonant activation; noise enhanced stabilityresonant activationSettore FIS/03 - Fisica Della MateriaLévy noisenoise enhanced stability
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