Quantum jumps between macroscopic quantum states of a superconducting qubit coupled to a microscopic two-level system

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 101, Issue 15, 2008, Pages

  Yu, Yang ^a   Zhu, Shi Liang ^b   Sun, Guozhu ^a   Wen, Xueda ^a   Dong, Ning ^a   Chen, Jian ^a   Wu, Peiheng ^a   Han, Siyuan ^a,c  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

DECOHERENCE; JOSEPHSON DEVICES; JOSEPHSON TUNNEL JUNCTIONS; KEY FEATURES; MACROSCOPIC QUANTUM STATES; PHASE QUBIT; QUANTUM JUMPS; SUPERCONDUCTING QUBIT;

TUNNEL JUNCTIONS;

EID: 54049092006     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.157001     Document Type: Article

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