Dissipation-Dependent Thermal Escape from a Potential Well

Autor: Chungho Cheng, Matteo Cirillo, Niels Grønbech-Jensen
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Entropy, Vol 23, Iss 10, p 1315 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1099-4300
DOI: 10.3390/e23101315
Popis: Langevin simulations are conducted to investigate the Josephson escape statistics over a large set of parameter values for damping and temperature. The results are compared to both Kramers and Büttiker–Harris–Landauer (BHL) models, and good agreement is found with the Kramers model for high to moderate damping, while the BHL model provides further good agreement down to lower damping values. However, for extremely low damping, even the BHL model fails to reproduce the progression of the escape statistics. In order to explain this discrepancy, we develop a new model which shows that the bias sweep effectively cools the system below the thermodynamic value as the potential well broadens due to the increasing bias. A simple expression for the temperature is derived, and the model is validated against direct Langevin simulations for extremely low damping values.
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