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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

Evaluating Qubit Coherence Statistics in the Presence of Time-Correlated Fluctuations

Greg Calusine, Kyle Serniak, David K. Kim, Bethany M. Niedzielski, Alexander J. Melville, Jonilyn Yoder, William D. Oliver

Published Mar 16, 2021• 0 citations
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