Instabilities of the normal state in current-biased narrow superconducting strips
arXiv:1905.02352 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.101.014511
Abstract
We study the current-voltage characteristic of narrow superconducting strips in the gapless regime near the critical temperature in the framework of the Ginzburg-Landau model. Our focus is on its instabilities occurring at high current biases. The latter are consequences of dynamical states with periodic phase-slip events in space and time. We analyze their structure and derive the value of the reentrance current at the onset of the instability of the normal state. It is expressed in terms of the kinetic coefficient of the time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau equation and calculated numerically.
arXiv comment13 pages, 5 figures, includes supplementary information
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