Thermally activated escape from the zero-voltage state in long Josephson junctions

M. G. Castellano; G. Torrioli; C. Cosmelli; A. Costantini; F. Chiarello; P. Carelli; G. Rotoli; M. Cirillo; R. L. Kautz

doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.54.15417

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Thermally activated escape from the zero-voltage state in long Josephson junctions

M. G. Castellano, G. Torrioli, C. Cosmelli, A. Costantini, F. Chiarello, P. Carelli, G. Rotoli, M. Cirillo, R. L. Kautz

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.54.15417 · Physical Review B

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Abstract

We have measured the rate of thermally induced escape from the zero-voltage state in long Josephson junctions of both overlap and in-line geometry as a function of applied magnetic field. The statistical distribution of switching currents is used to evaluate the escape rate and derive an activation energy ΔU for the process. Because long junctions correspond to the continuum limit of multidimensional systems, ΔU is in principle the difference in energy between stationary states in an infinite-dimensional potential. We obtain good agreement between calculated and measured activation energies for junctions with lengths a few times the Josephson penetration depth λJ.

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