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Short description Superconducting nanowires are promising for future electronics. Adressed at students and young researchers, this work tackles many fundamental questions, while also conveying the latest findings regarding fabrication, measurements, and theoretical analysis.
From the contents 1 Introduction 2 Selected Theoretical Topics Relevant to Superconducting Nanowires 3 StewartMcCumber Model 4 Fabrication of Nanowires Using Molecular Templates 5 Experimental Methods 6 Resistance of Nanowires Made of Superconducting Materials 7 Golubev and Zaikin Theory of Thermally Activated Phase Slips 8 Stochastic Premature Switching and Kurkij¨arvi Theory 9 Macroscopic Quantum Tunneling in Thin Wires 10 SuperconductorInsulator Transition (SIT) in Thin and ShortWires 11 Bardeen Formula for the Temperature Dependence of the Critical Current Appendices A Superconductivity in MoGe Alloys B Variance and the Variance Estimator
