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arXiv:1304.0748 · Quantum Information Processing

Mini-maximizing two qubit quantum computations

Faisal Shah Khan, Simon J. D. Phoenix

Published Sep 18, 2013• 21 citations
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10.1007/s11128-013-0640-7

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