Relaxation of nonequilibrium quasiparticles in mesoscopic size superconductors

KY Arutyunov, SA Chernyaev… - Journal of Physics …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Rapid development of micro-and nanofabrication methods have provoked interest and
enabled experimental studies of electronic properties of a vast class of (sub) micrometer …

Spatially resolved measurement of nonequilibrium quasiparticle relaxation in superconducting Al

KY Arutyunov, HP Auraneva, AS Vasenko - Physical Review B—Condensed …, 2011 - APS
Spatially resolved relaxation of nonequilibrium quasiparticles in a superconductor at
ultralow temperatures was experimentally studied. It was found that the quasiparticle …

Electron cooling by diffusive normal metal–superconductor tunnel junctions

AS Vasenko, EV Bezuglyi, H Courtois… - Physical Review B …, 2010 - APS
We investigate heat and charge transport in NN′ IS tunnel junctions in the diffusive limit.
Here, N and S are massive normal and superconducting electrodes (reservoirs), N′ is a …

Critical currents, phase slip centers, and phase slip lines in superconducting films in the absence of external magnetic field

VM Dmitriev, IV Zolochevskii, TV Salenkova… - Low temperature …, 2005 - pubs.aip.org
The temperature dependence of the current–voltage characteristics of high-quality thin films
of tin from 7 to 50 μm thick is investigated in the absence of external magnetic field. For the …

Collective modes and nonequilibrium effects in current-carrying superconductors

G Schön, V Ambegaokar - Physical Review B, 1979 - APS
Dynamical equations for the order parameter and the electric potential in a short-mean-free-
path superconductor near the critical temperature are derived from microscopic theory. The …

Nonequilibrium effects in tunnel Josephson junctions

EV Bezuglyi, AS Vasenko, VS Shumeiko… - Physical Review B …, 2005 - APS
We study nonequilibrium effects in current transport through voltage biased tunnel junction
with long diffusive superconducting leads at low applied voltage eV⪡ 2 Δ, and finite …

Nonequilibrium electron cooling by NIS tunnel junctions

AS Vasenko, FWJ Hekking - Journal of Low Temperature Physics, 2009 - Springer
We discuss the theoretical framework to describe quasiparticle electric and heat currents in
NIS tunnel junctions in the dirty limit. The approach is based on quasiclassical Keldysh …

Critical current, phase slip centers and phase slip lines in superconducting films in zero external magnetic field; Kriticheskie toki, tsentry i linii proskal'zyvaniya fazy …

VM Dmitriev, IV Zolochevskii, TV Salenkova… - Fizika Nizkikh …, 2005 - osti.gov
The temperature dependences of current-voltage characteristics have been measured on
high-grade thin Sn films (7-50 micron wide) in zero external magnetic field. For the first time …

Resistive current states in wide superconducting films in zero magnetic field

VM Dmitriev, IV Zolochevskii - Superconductor Science and …, 2006 - iopscience.iop.org
The temperature dependence of the current–voltage characteristics of high-quality thin films
of tin from 7 to 50 µm thick are investigated in the absence of an external magnetic field. For …

Resistive states in wide superconducting films induced by dc and ac currents

IV Zolochevskii - Low Temperature Physics, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
This review is devoted to the studies of the resistive state in wide superconducting films
induced by dc and ac currents in the absence of an external magnetic field. It is found …