Circuit QED and engineering charge-based superconducting qubits

Physica Scripta T

Volumn T137, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Girvin, S M ^a   Devoret, M H ^a   Schoelkopf, R J ^a  

^a Yale University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL ATOMS; MESOSCOPICS; MICROWAVE PHOTON; OF QUANTUM-INFORMATION; QUANTUM COHERENCE; QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS; STATE OF THE ART; SUPERCONDUCTING CIRCUIT; SUPERCONDUCTING QUBITS;

COUPLED CIRCUITS; ELECTRODYNAMICS; LIGHT; MICROWAVES; PHOTONS; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 77952827125     PISSN: 02811847     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-8949/2009/T137/014012     Document Type: Conference Paper

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