Abstract
We discuss a phenomenological theory of the onset of an inhomogeneous state in a nonequilibrium superconducting film. The length scale of the initial instability is given by the geometric mean of the coherence length and an effective quasiparticle diffusion length.
- Received 17 June 1977
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.39.1365
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