Quasiparticle Decoherence in d-Wave Superconducting Qubits

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 170011-170014

  Amin, M H S ^a   Smirnov, A Yu ^a  

^a D WAVE SYSTEMS INC   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DOPPLER EFFECT; FERMI LEVEL; GREEN'S FUNCTION; GROUND STATE; HAMILTONIANS; PHASE CONTROL; PHASE EQUILIBRIA; QUANTUM THEORY; RICCATI EQUATIONS;

QUANTUM BEHAVIOR; SUPERCONDUCTING QUBITS;

SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS;

EID: 1242329505     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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