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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

Nonreciprocal microwave amplifier for efficient qubit measurements

Florent Lecocq, Leonardo Ranzani, G. A. Peterson, Katarina Cicak, Raymond W. Simmonds, John D. Teufel, José Aumentado

Published Mar 5, 2018• 0 citations
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