Decoherence of a Josephson qubit due to coupling to two-level systems

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2005, Pages

  Ku, Li Chung ^a,b   Yu, Clare C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

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EID: 33644949223     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.72.024526     Document Type: Article

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