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Published November 19, 2001 | public
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Quantum phase slips in superconducting nanowires

Abstract

We have measured the resistance vs temperature of more than 20 superconducting nanowires with nominal widths ranging from 10 to 22 nm and lengths from 100 nm to 1 μm. With decreasing cross-sectional areas, the wires display increasingly broad resistive transitions. The data are in very good agreement with a model that includes both thermally activated phase slips close to Tc and quantum phase slips (QPS) at low temperatures, but disagree with an earlier model based on a critical value of Rn/Rq. Our measurements provide strong evidence for QPS in thin superconducting wires.

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©2001 The American Physical Society. Received 9 May 2001; published 2 November 2001. We thank B. I. Halperin and E. Demler for helpful discussions, S. Shepard for assistance with fabrication, and R. Smalley for providing the nanotubes. This work is supported by NSF Grants No. DMR-00-72618, No. DMR-98-0936, No. PHY-98-71810, and ONR Grant No. N00014-96-0108.

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