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As computing power demands continue to grow, superconducting electronics present an opportunity to reduce power consumption by increasing the energy efficiency of digital logic and memory. A key milestone for scaling this technology is the…
Development of memory devices with ultimate performance has played a key role in innovation of modern electronics. As a mainstream technology nonvolatile memory devices have manifested high capacity and mechanical reliability, however…
Dynamical decoupling techniques are widely used to characterize and control the environments of solid-state quantum defects, enabling solid-state quantum memories and nanoscale quantum sensors. However, resolution is often limited by the…
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