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arXiv:1810.10584 · Nature Machine Intelligence

Reconstructing quantum states with generative models

Juan Carrasquilla, Giacomo Torlai, Roger G. Melko, Leandro Aolita

Published Mar 11, 2019• 324 citations
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10.1038/s42256-019-0028-1

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