A study of the autoresonant behaviour of a superconducting pendulum reveals that quantum fluctuations determine only the initial oscillator motion and not its subsequent dynamics. This could be important in the development of more efficient methods for reading solid-state qubits.
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Lupascu, A. Quantum pendula locked in. Nature Phys 7, 100–101 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys1917
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