Fully frustrated Josephson junction ladders with Mobius boundary conditions as topologically protected qubits

Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics

Volumn 372, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 2464-2473

  Cristofano, Gerardo ^a   Marotta, Vincenzo ^a   Naddeo, Adele ^b   Niccoli, Giuliano ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE CERGY PONTOISE   (France)

Author keywords

Fully frustrated Josephson junction ladder; Qubit; Topological order

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; GROUND STATE; JOSEPHSON JUNCTION DEVICES; LADDERS; QUANTUM OPTICS; SUPERCONDUCTING FILMS; TOPOLOGY;

CONFORMAL FIELD THEORIES; DECOHERENCE; HALF-FLUX QUANTA; JOSEPHSON-JUNCTION; MAROTTA; QUBIT; TOPOLOGICAL ORDER; TOPOLOGICAL PROPERTIES;

QUBITS;

EID: 40449138357     PISSN: 03759601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physleta.2007.11.048     Document Type: Article

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