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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

Quantum-tailored machine-learning characterization of quantum processors

Élie Genois, Agustín Di Paolo, Noah Stevenson, Gerwin Koolstra, Akel Hashim, Irfan A. Siddiqi, Alexandre Blais, Jonathan A. Gross

Published Mar 17, 2021• 1 citation
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