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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

Toward Quantum Non-demolition of nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond

J. S. Hodges, Liang Jiang, Jeronimo R. Maze, Mikhail D. Lukin

Published May 23, 2009• 0 citations
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