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Fundamental Limits on Squid Technology

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Advances in Superconductivity

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In the last few years, the flux noise energy of the dc Superconducting Quantum Interference Device (SQUID) (Jaklevic et al., 1964) has been lowered by about four orders of magnitude. The most sensitive SQUID yet made is close to the limits set by fundamental quantum processes. The purpose of this article is to review these developments, and, in particular, to discuss at some length the limiting quantum processes in both single junctions and SQUIDs.

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  1. Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California, 94720, USA

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Clarke, J. (1983). Fundamental Limits on Squid Technology. In: Deaver, B., Ruvalds, J. (eds) Advances in Superconductivity. NATO Advanced Science Institutes Series. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9954-4_2

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