Measurement of the effect of quantum phase slips in a Josephson junction chain

Nature Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 589-592

  Pop, I M ^a   Protopopov, I ^b,c   Lecocq, F ^a   Peng, Z ^a   Pannetier, B ^a   Buisson, O ^a   Guichard, W ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE DE CRISTALLOGRAPHIE   (France)

^b LANDAU INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^c KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COULOMB INTERACTIONS; GROUND STATE; JOSEPHSON JUNCTION DEVICES; QUANTUM OPTICS;

CHARGE FLUCTUATIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC ENVIRONMENTS; JOSEPHSON JUNCTION ARRAYS; LOW-DIMENSIONAL SYSTEMS; QUANTITATIVE MEASUREMENT; QUANTUM PHASE FLUCTUATIONS; THIN SUPERCONDUCTING FILMS; TIGHT BINDING MODEL;

SUPERCONDUCTING FILMS;

EID: 77955252829     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys1697     Document Type: Article

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