Josephson circuits (IMAGE)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Josephson circuits

Caption

This illustration uses a layered sculpture to interpret a phenomenon that can cause a quantum circuit to perform differently than expected, increasing the error in computations. MIT researchers developed a method to detect and precisely measure the strength of these distortions.

Credit

Amy Pan and Sampson Wilcox

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