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Designer pulses for better qubit gate operations

Error rates in silicon qubits can be improved by benchmarking and optimizing pulse engineering techniques.

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Emerson, J. Designer pulses for better qubit gate operations. Nat Electron 2, 140–141 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41928-019-0238-x

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