Superconductive circuits and the general-purpose electronic simulator APLAC

Mikko Kiviranta
2021 IEEE transactions on applied superconductivity  
The general-purpose circuit simulator analysis program for linear active circuits (APLAC) is not widely known within the superconductor circuit community, regardless of its built-in Josephson junction model and capability of modeling the superconductive phase transition with controlled sources. We review the use of APLAC to model, e.g., noisy dc SQUIDs and transition-edge sensors. Based on an APLAC simulation, we also comment on the preference of voltage bias over current bias in dc SQUIDs in
more » ... plications where large dynamic range and high bandwidth are simultaneously required.
doi:10.1109/tasc.2021.3068780 fatcat:pxcqjxrp2nditktstblkax7hq4