Millisecond charge-parity fluctuations and induced decoherence in a superconducting transmon qubit

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Riste D ^a   Bultink, C C ^a   Tiggelman, M J ^a   Schouten, R N ^a   Lehnert, K W ^b   Dicarlo, L ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

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ELECTRICAL METHOD; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MAGNITUDE; QUANTUM MECHANICS; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY;

EID: 84878699717     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2936     Document Type: Article

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