Supplementary material for energy decay and frequency shift of a superconducting qubit from non-equilibrium quasiparticles
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M. Lenander, H. Wang, Radoslaw C. Bialczak, Erik Lucero, Matteo Mariantoni, M. Neeley, A. D. O’Connell, D. Sank, M. Weides, J. Wenner, T. Yamamoto, Y. Yin, J. Zhao, A. N. Cleland, and John M. Martinis Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA Department of Physics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China and Green Innovation Research Laboratories, NEC Corporation, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8501, Japan (Dated: December 31, 2010)
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