Noise spectroscopy through dynamical decoupling with a superconducting flux qubit

Nature Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 565-570

  Bylander, Jonas ^a   Gustavsson, Simon ^a   Yan, Fei ^b   Yoshihara, Fumiki ^c   Harrabi, Khalil ^c,h   Fitch, George ^d   Cory, David G ^b,e,f   Nakamura, Yasunobu ^c,g   Tsai, Jaw Shen ^c,g   Oliver, William D ^a,d  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^c INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^d MIT LINCOLN LABORATORY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^f PERIMETER INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Canada)

^g NEC CORPORATION   (Japan)

^h KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; QUANTUM OPTICS; SPIN DYNAMICS;

ARTIFICIAL SPIN SYSTEMS; DYNAMICAL DECOUPLING; ENERGY RELAXATION TIME; MATERIALS ENGINEERING; QUANTUM INFORMATION SCIENCE; SPECIFIC FREQUENCIES; SUPERCONDUCTING FLUX; SUPERCONDUCTING QUBITS;

QUBITS;

EID: 79960029666     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys1994     Document Type: Article

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