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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

Time domain measurement of on-chip flux waveforms for superconducting qubits

Brooks Foxen, Zijun Chen, B. Chiaro, A. Dunsworth, Charles Neill, J. Wenner, John M. Martinis

Published Mar 7, 2018• 0 citations
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