Measurements of 1/f noise in Josephson junctions at zero voltage: Implications for decoherence in superconducting quantum bits

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2005, Pages

  Mück, Michael ^a   Korn, Matthias ^a   Mugford, C G A ^b   Kycia, J B ^b   Clarke, John ^c  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL CURRENT NOISE; DECOHERENCE; PHASE DIFFERENCES; SUPERCONDUCTING QUANTUM BITS;

CRITICAL CURRENTS; CURRENT DENSITY; INDUCTANCE; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; QUANTUM THEORY; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; SQUIDS; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; TUNNEL JUNCTIONS;

JOSEPHSON JUNCTION DEVICES;

EID: 19744383874     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1846157     Document Type: Article

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