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The intrinsic mechanism of absorbing photons in superconductors reveals the interaction between photons and Cooper pairs, which is of great significance for developing new superconducting nanowire single photon detectors (SNSPDs). Here we propose a photon-assisted phase slip model to describe the interaction mechanism between photons and superconductors. In this model, incident photons destroy large quantities of Cooper pairs and reduce the free-energy barrier of the phase slip, resulting in proliferation in the phase slip events and leading to superconducting transition. The switching rates from the superconducting state of a niobium nitride nanowire under various photon irradiation and temperatures are calculated through the distribution of switching currents in the experiment. The experimental data can be well fitted by our deduced expression of phase slip rate after eliminating the influence of external noise.
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