Controllable coupling of superconducting flux qubits

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 98, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Van Der Ploeg, S H W ^a   Izmalkov, A ^a   Van Den Brink, Alec Maassen ^b,c   Hubner U ^a   Grajcar, M ^d   Il'ichev, E ^a   Meyer, H G ^a   Zagoskin, A M ^c,e  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PHOTONIC TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b D WAVE SYSTEMS INC   (Canada)

^c Japan Science and Technology Agency   (Japan)

^d Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFERROMAGNETISM; JOSEPHSON JUNCTION DEVICES; MAGNETIC COUPLINGS; QUANTUM THEORY;

COUPLER LOOPS; COUPLING STRENGTH; THREE-JUNCTION FLUX QUBITS;

SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 33846817467     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.057004     Document Type: Article

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