A bifunctional superconducting cell as flux qubit and neuron

Dmitrii S Pashin1, Pavel V Pikunov1, Marina V Bastrakova1,2

  • 1Faculty of Physics, Lobachevsky State University of Nizhni Novgorod, 603022 Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.

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