Generation of Fock states in a superconducting quantum circuit

Nature

Volumn 454, Issue 7202, 2008, Pages 310-314

  Hofheinz, Max ^a   Weig, E M ^a,b   Ansmann, M ^a   Bialczak, Radoslaw C ^a   Lucero, Erik ^a   Neeley, M ^a   O'Connell, A D ^a   Wang, H ^a   Martinis, John M ^a   Cleland, A N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OSCILLATION; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

ARTICLE; ENERGY; FOCK STATE; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT; MICROWAVE RADIATION; MULTIPHOTON MICROSCOPY; OSCILLATOR; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SOLID STATE; SUPERCONDUCTOR;

EID: 47649130884     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07136     Document Type: Article

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