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arXiv:1309.0198 · Nature Communications

Reducing the impact of intrinsic dissipation in a superconducting circuit by quantum error detection

Youpeng Zhong, Z. L. Wang, John M. Martinis, Andrew N. Cleland, Alexander N. Korotkov, H. Wang

Published Jan 24, 2014• 27 citations
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10.1038/ncomms4135

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