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Achievements and Outlook of Research on Quantum Information Systems Using Superconducting Quantum Circuits

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Principles and Methods of Quantum Information Technologies

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Research is currently being conducted on quantum information processing, which is expected to be the next-generation approach to information processing. The development of quantum computers using superconducting circuits is an area of particularly intensive research and notable progress has been made. Achievements and outlook of this technology are discussed.

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Acknowledgements

I would like to thank Yasunobu Nakamura, Yuri Pashkin, Tsuyoshi Yamamoto, Oleg V. Astafiev, Fumiki Yoshihara, Antti Niskanen, Khalil Harrabi, Michio Watanabe, Kunihiro Inomata, Pierre-Marie Billangeon, and Zhirong Lin, who are the main co-authors of the achievements presented in this paper. I am grateful for the support provided by our two JST CREST projects, the Cabinet Office FIRST Project on Quantum Information Processing and the JSPS Scientific Research on Innovative Areas, Quantum Cybernetics Project.

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Tsai, JS. (2016). Achievements and Outlook of Research on Quantum Information Systems Using Superconducting Quantum Circuits. In: Yamamoto, Y., Semba, K. (eds) Principles and Methods of Quantum Information Technologies. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 911. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-55756-2_22

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