Reduced visibility of Rabi oscillations in superconducting qubits

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 71, Issue 9, 2005, Pages

  Meier, Florian ^a,b   Loss, Daniel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; OSCILLATION; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SUPERCONDUCTOR; THEORETICAL STUDY; VISIBILITY;

EID: 20344382258     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.71.094519     Document Type: Article

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