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arXiv:1105.5334 · Nature Communications

Observation of topologically protected bound states in photonic quantum walks

Takuya Kitagawa, Matthew A. Broome, Alessandro Fedrizzi, Mark Spencer Rudner, Erez Berg, Ivan Kassal, Alán Aspuru‐Guzik, Eugene Demler, Andrew G. White

Published Jun 6, 2012• 607 citations
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10.1038/ncomms1872

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