Adiabatic quantum computation with flux qubits, first experimental results

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 113-119

  Van Der Ploeg, S H W ^a   Izmalkov, A ^a   Grajear, M ^b   Hubner U ^a   Linzen, S ^a   Uchaikin, S ^c   Wagner, Th ^a   Smirnov, A Yu ^c   Van Den Brink, A Maasen ^c,d   Amin, M H S ^c,e   Zagoskin, A M ^d,e   Il'ichev, E ^a   Meyer, H G ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PHOTONIC TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

^c D WAVE SYSTEMS INC   (Canada)

^d Japan Science and Technology Agency   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERIZATION; GROUND STATE; HAMILTONIANS; PHASE DIAGRAMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

FLUX QUBITS; RADIO-FREQUENCY METHOD; TWO-QUBIT SYSTEMS;

QUANTUM COMPUTERS;

EID: 34547418198     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASC.2007.898156     Document Type: Conference Paper

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