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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

Broadband superconducting switches for integrated quantum networks

Eric I. Rosenthal, Christian Schneider, Benjamin J. Chapman, Leila R. Vale, Gene C Hilton, Konrad W. Lehnert

Published Mar 4, 2019• 0 citations
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