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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

Selection of a Flux State in a Multi-well Asymmetric SQUID

Tauno Palomaki, S. K. Dutta, Hanhee Paik, Rupert Lewis, Rinette Ramos, Hui Xu, J. R. Anderson, Christopher J. Lobb, F. C. Wellstood

Published Mar 24, 2005• 0 citations
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