Noise Thermometry with the Josephson Effect
- 1 January 1971
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 42 (1), 132-136
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1659545
Abstract
Thermal noise causes a random frequency modulation of the self‐oscillation of a Josephson junction, and the temperature of the noise source can be determined by analysis of the generated signal. We show that a thermometer based on this principle would be theoretically capable of measuring temperatures in the microkelvin range, and describe a prototype thermometer which has recorded noise temperatures down to 0.075 K.Keywords
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