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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

Design and quantization of superconducting circuits

Zlatko Minev, Thomas McConkey, Firat Solgun, Jerry M. Chow, Jay Gambetta, David C. McKay

Published Mar 6, 2020• 0 citations
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