Superconducting tunnelling junctions as phonon generators and detectors

Abstract

It is the aim of this chapter to review the experimental and theoretical results obtained by the use of superconducting tunneling junctions as phonon generators and detectors. We first discuss the fundamental processes and their experimental evidence in more qualitative terms in Sections II and III. The quantitative treatment of phonon detection and generation is given in Sections IV and V, while Section VI discusses phonon spectroscopy and other applications.