Quantum two level systems and kondo-like traps as possible sources of decoherence in superconducting qubits

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 96, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Faoro, Lara ^a   Ioffe, Lev B ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON TRAPS; QUANTUM THEORY; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

DECOHERENCE; SUPERCONDUCTING QUBITS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

JOSEPHSON JUNCTION DEVICES;

EID: 33144455429     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.047001     Document Type: Article

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