Banishing quasiparticles from Josephson-junction qubits: Why and how to do it

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 13, Issue 2 I, 2003, Pages 989-993

  Lang, K M ^a   Nam, S ^a   Aumentado, J ^a   Urbina, C ^b   Martinis, John M ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b DIF   (France)

Author keywords

Andreev reflection; Josephson junction; Quantum computation; Quasiparticle; Qubit; Superconducting devices

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; CRITICAL CURRENTS; CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; ELECTRON TUNNELING; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS;

DECOHERENCE;

JOSEPHSON JUNCTION DEVICES;

EID: 0042941776     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASC.2003.814121     Document Type: Conference Paper

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