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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

Energy Decay from Nonequilibrium Quasiparticles in Josephson Qubits

M. Lenander, H. Wang, R. Bialczek, Erik A. Lucero, M. Mariantoni, M. Neeley, A. D. O’Connell, D. Sank, Martin P. Weides, J. Wenner, T Yamamoto, Yi Yin, Andrew N. Cleland, John M. Martinis

Published Mar 19, 2010• 0 citations
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