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RECENT RESULTS IN EXPERIMENTS WITH JOSEPHSON QUBITS

O. V. Astafiev, Yu. A. Pashkin, Tsuyoshi Yamamoto, Yasunobu Nakamura, Jaw-Shen Tsai

Published Oct 1, 2005• 0 citations
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We demonstrate our recent experiments on Josephson charge qubits: Coherent manipulation of two electrostatically coupled qubits, controlled-NOT operation, single-shot readout, and study of decoherence mechanisms with help of the single-shot readout.
DOI
10.1142/9789812701633_0017

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