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Journal of Superconductivity

A Coherent Two-Level System in a Superconducting Single-Electron Transistor Observed Through Photon-Assisted Cooper-Pair Tunneling

Yasunobu Nakamura, J. S. Tsai

Published Dec 1, 1999• 13 citations
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10.1023/a:1007793228293

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