Evidence for coherent quantum phase slips across a Josephson junction array
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Vladimir E. Manucharyan,1,2 Nicholas A. Masluk,1 Archana Kamal,1 Jens Koch,1,3 Leonid I. Glazman,1 and Michel H. Devoret1 1Departments of Physics and Applied Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA 2Society of Fellows, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA 3Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA (Received 6 November 2011; published 11 January 2012)
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