• 文献标题:   Anomalous transport effects on switching currents of graphene-based Josephson junctions
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   GUARCELLO C, VALENTI D, SPAGNOLO B, PIERRO V, FILATRELLA G
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, josephson junction, levy processe, nonthermal noise
  • 出版物名称:   NANOTECHNOLOGY
  • ISSN:   0957-4484 EI 1361-6528
  • 通讯作者地址:   SPIN CNR
  • 被引频次:   9
  • DOI:   10.1088/1361-6528/aa5e75
  • 出版年:   2017

▎ 摘  要

We explore the effect of noise on the ballistic graphene-based small Josephson junctions in the framework of the resistively and capacitively shunted model. We use the non-sinusoidal current-phase relation specific for graphene layers partially covered by superconducting electrodes. The noise induced escapes from the metastable states, when the external bias current is ramped, given the switching current distribution, i.e. the probability distribution of the passages to finite voltage from the superconducting state as a function of the bias current, that is the information more promptly available in the experiments. We consider a noise source that is a mixture of two different types of processes: a Gaussian contribution to simulate an uncorrelated ordinary thermal bath, and non-Gaussian, a-stable (or Levy) term, generally associated to non-equilibrium transport phenomena. We find that the analysis of the switching current distribution makes it possible to efficiently detect a non-Gaussian noise component in a Gaussian background.