Dynamically protected cat-qubits: A new paradigm for universal quantum computation

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 16, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Mirrahimi, Mazyar ^a,b   Leghtas, Zaki ^b   Albert, Victor V ^b   Touzard, Steven ^b   Schoelkopf, Robert J ^b   Jiang, Liang ^b   Devoret, Michel H ^b  

^a INRIA   (France)

^b Yale University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENCODING (SYMBOLS); ERRORS; HAMILTONIANS; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM COMPUTERS; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; QUANTUM OPTICS;

DISSIPATIVE PROCESS; EXPERIMENTAL SCHEME; PARAMETRIC AMPLIFICATION; QUANTUM HARMONIC OSCILLATORS; QUANTUM INFORMATION; QUANTUM SYSTEM; SUPERCONDUCTING CIRCUIT; UNIVERSAL QUANTUM GATES;

LOGIC GATES;

EID: 84899555149     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/16/4/045014     Document Type: Article

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