Identification of the local sources of paramagnetic noise in superconducting qubit devices fabricated on α-Al2O3 substrates using density-functional calculations

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 112, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Lee, Donghwa ^a   Dubois, Jonathan L ^a   Lordi, Vincenzo ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS; DENSITY-FUNCTIONAL CALCULATIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL NOISE; FIRST-PRINCIPLES DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; INTRINSIC POINT DEFECTS; LOW-FREQUENCY NOISE; SUPERCONDUCTING QUBIT DEVICES; SUPERCONDUCTING QUBITS;

MAGNETIC MOMENTS; PARAMAGNETISM; POINT DEFECTS; QUANTUM COMPUTERS; SUBSTRATES; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; SURFACE DEFECTS;

SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES;

EID: 84892415745     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.017001     Document Type: Article

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