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Abstract<br />

Benchmarking the<br />

Superconducting Josephson Phase Qubit:<br />

The Violation <strong>of</strong> Bell’s Inequality<br />

by<br />

Markus Ansmann<br />

The concepts <strong>of</strong> entanglement and superpositions introduced by quantum mechanics<br />

promise to allow for the design <strong>of</strong> a new computing architecture, called<br />

a quantum computer, that can exponentially outperform any possible classical<br />

computer. Such a performance improvement would make presently intractable<br />

computational problems efficiently solvable. Such problems include optimizations,<br />

like the traveling salesman problem, factorization, and quantum simulations, e.g.<br />

for medical research.<br />

This thesis discusses one approach to implementing a quantum computer that<br />

is based on Superconducting Josephson Phase Qubits. An experiment is presented<br />

that shows a violation <strong>of</strong> Bell’s inequality using these qubits (quantum bits), i.e.<br />

it demonstrates that a pair <strong>of</strong> these qubits can be placed into a state that shows<br />

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