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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

Sympathetic cooling and trapped-ion quantum logic gates

David Hanneke, John D. Jost, Jonathan Home, Jason Amini, Roee Ozeri, C. Langer, J. J. Bollinger, Dietrich G. Leibfried, David J. Wineland

Published May 20, 2009• 0 citations
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