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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

Designs towards improved coherence times in superconducting qubits

Antonio D. Corcoles, Jerry M. Chow, Jay Gambetta, Chad T. Rigetti, Jim Rozen, George Keefe, Mary Beth Rothwell, Stefano Poletto, M. B. Ketchen, Matthias Steffen

Published Mar 2, 2012• 0 citations
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