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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

Progress towards a small-scale quantum annealer III: Device theory and modeling

Dvir Kafri, Chris Quintana, Yu Chen, Alireza Shabani, Vasil S. Denchev, John M. Martinis, Hartmut Neven

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