Symmetries and collective excitations in large superconducting circuits

Physical Review X

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Ferguson, David G ^a   Houck, A A ^b   Koch, Jens ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION SCHEME; COLLECTIVE EXCITATIONS; COLLECTIVE MODES; DETAILED MODELING; JOSEPHSON JUNCTION ARRAYS; QUANTITATIVE MODELING; SUPERCONDUCTING CIRCUIT; SYMMETRIC GROUPS;

MECHANICS; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

LOW POWER ELECTRONICS;

EID: 84877052892     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21603308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.3.011003     Document Type: Article

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