Scalable solid-state qubits: Challenging decoherence and read-out

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 361, Issue 1808, 2003, Pages 1323-1338

  Wendin, Göran ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Decoherence; Josephson junctions; Nanoelectronics; Quantum computing; Solid state qubits; Superconducting electronics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141957815     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2003.1202     Document Type: Conference Paper

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