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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

Quantum measurements of a thin-film bulk acoustic resonator using a superconducting qubit

Ming-Han Chou, Étienne Dumur, Youpeng Zhong, G. A. Peairs, Audrey Bienfait, Hung-Shen Chang, Christopher R. Conner, Joel Grebel, Rhys G. Povey, Kevin J. Satzinger, Andrew N. Cleland

Published Mar 16, 2021• 0 citations
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