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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

Large Magnetic Field Gradients for Crystal Lattice Quantum Computing

J. R. Goldman, Thaddeus D. Ladd, Charles Santori, Shinichi Koseki, Glenn S. Solomon, Bing Zhang, Yoshinori Matsumoto, Fumiko Yamaguchi, Y. Yamamoto

Published Mar 25, 2005• 0 citations
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