Microwave transitions as a signature of coherent parity mixing effects in the Majorana-transmon qubit

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Ginossar, Eran ^a   Grosfeld, Eytan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOWIRE; QUANTUM DOT;

MICROWAVE RADIATION; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY;

ADIABATICITY; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EXCITATION; FERMION; MAJORANA FERMION; MICROWAVE RADIATION; PHOTON; SEMICONDUCTOR; SOLID STATE; SUPERCONDUCTOR;

MAJORANA;

EID: 84923266096     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5772     Document Type: Article

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