Superconducting nanocircuits for topologically protected qubits

Nature Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 48-53

  Gladchenko, Sergey ^a   Olaya, David ^a   Dupont Ferrier, Eva ^a   Douçot, Benoit ^b   Ioffe, Lev B ^a   Gershenson, Michael E ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LPTHE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

JOSEPHSON JUNCTION DEVICES; LOGIC GATES; TOPOLOGY;

ENVIRONMENTAL NOISE; NANOSCALE JOSEPHSON JUNCTIONS; PHYSICAL QUBITS; PROOF OF CONCEPT; PROTOTYPE DEVICES; QUANTUM FLUCTUATION; SUPERCONDUCTING NANOCIRCUITS; SUPERCONDUCTING QUBITS;

QUBITS;

EID: 58149293429     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys1151     Document Type: Article

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