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A Hysteretic Single Cooper Pair Transistor for Single Shot Reading of a Charge-Qubit

Audrey Cottet, D. Vion, P. Joyez, Daniel Esteve, Michel Devoret

Published Jan 1, 2002• 1 citation
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10.1007/978-1-4615-0737-6_9

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