Charge qubit coupled to an intense microwave electromagnetic field in a superconducting Nb device: Evidence for photon-assisted quasiparticle tunneling

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 111, Issue 13, 2013, Pages

  De Graaf, S E ^a   Leppakangas J ^a   Adamyan, A ^a   Danilov, A V ^a   Lindstrom T ^b   Fogelstrom M ^a   Bauch, T ^a   Johansson, G ^a   Kubatkin, S E ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERFERENCE PATTERNS; INTERFERENCE STRUCTURES; MICROWAVE ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; QUASI PARTICLES; QUASIPARTICLE TUNNELING; RESONANCE FREQUENCIES; SUPERCONDUCTING CHARGE QUBIT; TWO-LEVEL SYSTEM;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; PHOTONS; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

QUANTUM COMPUTERS;

EID: 84884696235     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.137002     Document Type: Article

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