Decoherence of superconducting qubits caused by quasiparticle tunneling

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 86, Issue 18, 2012, Pages

  Catelani, G ^a   Nigg, S E ^a   Girvin, S M ^a   Schoelkopf, R J ^a   Glazman, L I ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84870231202     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.86.184514     Document Type: Article

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