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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

Pulsed Electron Spin Resonance Quantum Information Processing with Stable Organic Free-Radical Spin Samples

Troy W. Borneman, Olaf W. B. Benningshof, Hamid Reza Mohebbi, Mohamad Niknam, Ivar Taminiau, Christopher J. Wood, Daniel Puzzuoli, David G. Cory

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