Superconducting properties of metallic nanowires can be entirely different from those of bulk
superconductors because of the dominating role played by thermal and quantum …

It is of fundamental importance to establish whether there is a limit to how thin a
superconducting wire can be, while retaining its superconducting character—and if there is …

The ac Josephson effect predicted in 1962 and observed experimentally in 1963 as
quantized 'voltage steps'(the Shapiro steps) from photon-assisted tunnelling of Cooper pairs …

This book presents a complete encyclopedia of superconducting fluctuations, summarising
the last thirty-five years of work in the field. The first part of the book is devoted to an …

A hundred years after the discovery of superconductivity, one fundamental prediction of the
theory, coherent quantum phase slip (CQPS), has not been observed. CQPS is a …

For a superconductor, charge and phase are dual quantum variables. A phase-slip event in
a superconducting nanowire changes the phase difference over the wire by 2π; it is the dual …

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 μ m …

The superconductivity in very thin rings is suppressed by quantum phase slips. As a result,
the amplitude of the persistent current oscillations with flux becomes exponentially small …

In thin superconducting wires, phase-slip by thermal activation near the critical temperature
is a well-known effect. It has recently become clear that phase-slip by quantum tunnelling …

Josephson junctions are a central element in superconducting quantum technology; in these
devices, irreversibility arises from abrupt slips of the quantum phase difference across the …