Self-heating in normal metals and superconductors

A. Vl. Gurevich and R. G. Mints
Rev. Mod. Phys. 59, 941 – Published 1 October 1987
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Abstract

This review is devoted to the physics of current-carrying superconductors and normal metals having two or more stable states sustained by Joule self-heating. The creation, propagation, and localization of electrothermal domains and switching waves leading to the transition from one stable state to another in uniform and nonuniform samples are treated in detail. The connection between thermal bistability and hysteresis, dropping and stepped current-voltage characteristics, self-induced oscillations of current and voltage, selfreplication of electrothermal domains, and the formation of periodic and stochastic resistive structures are considered.

    DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/RevModPhys.59.941

    ©1987 American Physical Society

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    A. Vl. Gurevich and R. G. Mints

    • Institute for High Temperatures, USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow 127412, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

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    Vol. 59, Iss. 4 — October - December 1987

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