Stochastic resonance in thermally bistable Josephson weak-links and micro-SQUIDs
arXiv:2010.13349 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevApplied.15.024009
Abstract
Constriction-based Josephson weak-links display a thermal bi-stability between two states exhibiting zero and finite voltages. This manifests in experiments either as hysteresis in weak-links current voltage characteristics or as random telegraphic signal in voltage. In the latter case, a noise-driven amplification of a sinusoidal excitation of the device is observed, at frequencies matching the characteristic switching frequency in telegraphic signal, a phenomenon known as stochastic resonance. The observed behavior is understood using a two-state model of stochastic resonance and is exploited to illustrate an enhanced signal-to-noise-ratio in a micro-SQUID as a magnetic field sensor.
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