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The path most travelled

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Continuous tracking of the random trajectories of a superconducting quantum system as it evolves between two selected initial and final states has allowed researchers to determine the most probable path of the system. See Letter p.570

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Figure 1: Transmon trajectories.

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  1. Adrian Lupascu is in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada.,

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