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The origin of magnetic flux noise in Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices with a power spectrum scaling as $1/f$ ($f$ is frequency) has been a puzzle for over 20 years. This noise limits the decoherence time of superconducting…
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The performance of superconducting devices like qubits, SQUIDs, and particle detectors is often limited by finite coherence times and 1/f noise. Various types of slow fluctuators in the Josephson junctions and the passive parts of these…
The understanding of the origin of $1/f$ magnetic flux noise commonly observed in superconducting devices such as SQUIDS and qubits is still a major unsolved puzzle. Here we discuss the possibility that a significant part of the observed…