The Superconducting Tunnel Junction As a Voltage-Tunable Source of Monochromatic Phonon Pulses

Kinder, H.

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A new method has been presented for generating tunable monochromatic phonon pulses by superconducting tunnel junctions.¹ This method makes use of the phonon bremsstrahlung generated by the fast quasiparticles injected by tunneling. The bremsstrahlung has a continuous spectrum² which breaks off discontinuously at the maximum frequency

$${{w}_{M}}=\left( eV-2{{\Delta }_{G}} \right)/\hbar $$

(1)

where V is the battery voltage and Δ_G is the energy gap.

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Boulder, Colorado and National Science Foundation, University of Colorado, Washington, D.C., USA
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Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, University of California, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA
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Kinder, H. (1974). The Superconducting Tunnel Junction As a Voltage-Tunable Source of Monochromatic Phonon Pulses. In: Timmerhaus, K.D., O’Sullivan, W.J., Hammel, E.F. (eds) Low Temperature Physics-LT 13. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-2688-5_68

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