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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

Coherence time of a cold atomic ensemble as a quantum memory

C. W. Chou, D. Felinto, Hugues de Riedmatten, Sergey Vladimirovich Polyakov, Harry J. Kimble

Published May 19, 2005• 0 citations
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