Energy decay in superconducting josephson-junction qubits from nonequilibrium quasiparticle excitations

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 103, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Martinis, John M ^a   Ansmann, M ^a   Aumentado, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECAY RATE; DECOHERENCE; ENERGY DECAY; ENERGY DECAY RATES; JOSEPHSON QUBITS; JOSEPHSON-JUNCTION QUBITS; NON EQUILIBRIUM; PRIOR MEASUREMENT; QUASIPARTICLE DENSITY; QUASIPARTICLE EXCITATIONS; QUASIPARTICLES; SMALL REDUCTION; SUPERCONDUCTING RESONATORS;

RESONATORS; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

DECAY (ORGANIC);

EID: 69449105580     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.097002     Document Type: Article

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