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We report on design and fabrication of a new type of flux qubit that capitalizes on intrinsic properties of submicron YBCO grain boundary junctions. The operating point is protected from the fluctuations of the external fields, already on…
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We show that quantized superconducting circuits are non-integrable at the classical level of description, adorned by nonlinear resonances amidst stochastic sea. The spectral fluctuations of these quasi-integrable systems exhibit…