Elimination of two level fluctuators in superconducting quantum bits by an epitaxial tunnel barrier

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 74, Issue 10, 2006, Pages

  Oh, Seongshik ^a,b   Cicak, Katarina ^a   Kline, Jeffrey S ^a   Sillanpää, Mika A ^a   Osborn, Kevin D ^a   Whittaker, Jed D ^a   Simmonds, Raymond W ^a   Pappas, David P ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

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EID: 33748416606     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.74.100502     Document Type: Article

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