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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

Quantum memory effects in noninteracting cold-atom systems: Hysteresis loop and lattice transformation

Chih-Chun Chien, Mekena Metcalf, Chen-Yen Lai

Published May 25, 2016• 0 citations
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