Measurement of energy decay in superconducting qubits from nonequilibrium quasiparticles
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M. Lenander,1 H. Wang,1,2 Radoslaw C. Bialczak,1 Erik Lucero,1 Matteo Mariantoni,1 M. Neeley,1 A. D. O’Connell,1 D. Sank,1 M. Weides,1 J. Wenner,1 T. Yamamoto,1,3 Y. Yin,1 J. Zhao,1 A. N. Cleland,1 and John M. Martinis1 1Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA 2Department of Physics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China 3Green Innovation Research Laboratories, NEC Corporation, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8501, Japan (Received 3 January 2011; revised manuscript received 17 May 2011; published 1 July 2011)
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