Life after charge noise: Recent results with transmon qubits

Quantum Information Processing

Volumn 8, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 105-115

  Houck, A A ^a   Koch, Jens ^b   Devoret, M H ^b   Girvin, S M ^b   Schoelkopf, R J ^b  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Quantum computation; Superconducting qubits; Transmon

Indexed keywords

ANHARMONICITY; CHARGE NOISE; CHARGING ENERGIES; COHERENCE TIME; COOPER-PAIR BOXES; ENERGY SPECTRUM; HOMOGENEOUS BROADENING; JOSEPHSON; PURE-DEPHASING; QUANTUM COMPUTATION; SUPERCONDUCTING CHARGE QUBIT; SUPERCONDUCTING QUBITS; TRANSMON;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; QUANTUM COMPUTERS; QUANTUM THEORY;

SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 62649141810     PISSN: 15700755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11128-009-0100-6     Document Type: Article

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