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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Minimizing Random Disorder in a Kagome Lattice of Superconducting Resonators

Devin Underwood, Will Shanks, Jens Koch, Andrew Houck

Published Jan 1, 2012• 0 citations
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Abstract

To ultimately study phase transitions of light, arrays of superconducting resonators must be made with low disorder in individual resonator frequencies. We fabricate and measure such arrays, minimizing disorder to a few parts in 104.
DOI
10.1364/qels.2012.qf3e.6

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