QUASI-POTENTIAL AND THE STABILITY OF PHASE-LOCK IN NONHYSTERETIC JOSEPHSON-JUNCTIONS

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KAUTZ, RL
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[1] National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder
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10.1063/1.357156
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The principle of minimum available noise energy is used to calculate the quasipotential over the state space of a nonhysteretic Josephson junction driven by a rf bias. This potential surface provides an intuitive picture of the dynamics of phase lock and defines a stability parameter, the activation energy for thermally induced phase slippage, which determines the optimum operating conditions for a proposed programmable voltage standard.
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