Coherent state evolution in a superconducting qubit from partial-collapse measurement

Science

Volumn 312, Issue 5779, 2006, Pages 1498-1500

  Katz, N ^a   Ansmann, M ^a   Bialczak, Radoslaw C ^a   Lucero, Erik ^a   McDermott, R ^a   Neeley, Matthew ^a   Steffen, Matthias ^a   Weig, E M ^a   Cleland, A N ^a   Martinis, John M ^a   Korotkov, A N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b United States   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ERROR ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILISTIC LOGICS; QUANTUM THEORY; TOMOGRAPHY;

COHERENT STATE EVOLUTION; NONUNITARY EVOLUTION; PARTIAL-COLLAPSE MEASUREMENT; SUPERCONDUCTING QUBIT;

SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS;

ALGORITHM; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; WAVE;

ARTICLE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SUPERCONDUCTOR; WAVEFORM;

EID: 33744969803     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1126475     Document Type: Article

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