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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

Continuous generation and stabilization of Schr\"{o}dinger cat states in a quantum circuit

Ananda Roy, Zaki Leghtas, A. Douglas Stone, Michel Devoret, Mazyar Mirrahimi

Published Mar 6, 2015• 0 citations
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