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Lecture notes in electrical engineering

A Superconducting Qubit Network as a Sensitive Microwave Photon Detector

Valentina Di Meo, G. Brida, F. Chiarello, Alessandro D’Elia, Emanuele Enrico, Ilya Eremin, Luca Fasolo, M. V. Fistul, Claudio Gatti, Patrick Navez, A. Rettaroli, B. Ruggiero, P. Silvestrini, Paolo Vanacore, Alexandre M. Zagoskin, Mikhail Lisitskiy

Published Jan 1, 2026• 0 citations
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10.1007/978-3-032-17305-8_10

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