Measurement of energy decay in superconducting qubits from nonequilibrium quasiparticles

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Lenander, M ^a   Wang, H ^a,b   Bialczak, Radoslaw C ^a   Lucero, Erik ^a   Mariantoni, Matteo ^a   Neeley, M ^a   O'Connell, A D ^a   Sank, D ^a   Weides, M ^a   Wenner, J ^a   Yamamoto, T ^a,c   Yin, Y ^a   Zhao, J ^a   Cleland, A N ^a   Martinis, John M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NEC CORPORATION   (Japan)

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EID: 79961200235     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.84.024501     Document Type: Article

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