Voltage noise, switching rates, and multiple phase-slips in moderately damped Josephson junctions

Abstract

We study the voltage noise properties including the switching rates and statistics of phase-slips in moderately damped Josephson junctions using a novel efficient numerical approach combining the matrix continued-fraction method with the full counting statistics. By analyzing the noise results obtained for the RCSJ model we identify different dominating components, namely the thermal noise close to equilibrium (small current-bias regime), the shot noise of (multiple) phase-slips in the intermediate range of biases and the switching noise for yet higher bias currents. We extract thus far inaccessible characteristic rates of phase-slips in the shot noise regime as well as the escape and retrapping rates in the switching regime as functions of various junction's parameters. The method can be extended and applied to other experimentally relevant Josephson junction circuits.

5 pages, 4 figures of the main text + 7 pages of supplement

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