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Physical Review Applied

Practical limits to single-mode vacuum squeezing with a SNAIL parametric amplifier

Theodore Shaw, Debsuvra Mukhopadhyay, Zhuoqun Hao, Josiah Cochran, Haley M. Cole, Archana Kamal, Shyam Shankar

Published Sep 25, 2026• 0 citations
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10.1103/ctt2-zmh5

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