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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

Using Fourier Analysis and Maximum Likelihood Estimation to Identify and Model Non-Markovian Noise in Quantum Operations

Garrett Simon, Colin Bruzewicz, Kevin Obenland, Isaac L. Chuang, Richard Rines, Jules Stuart, Robert Niffenegger, John Chiaverini, Jeremy Sage

Published Mar 6, 2019• 1 citation
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