Quantum-state engineering with Josephson-junction devices

Reviews of Modern Physics

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 357-400

  Makhlin, Yuriy ^a,b   Schön, Gerd ^a,c   Shnirman, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b LANDAU INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^c KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

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EID: 0035535325     PISSN: 00346861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/RevModPhys.73.357     Document Type: Article

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