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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

Ring-shaped Wigner crystals of trapped ions at the micronscale

Haokun Li, Erik Urban, Crystal Noel, Alexander Chuang, Yang Xia, Boerge Hemmerling, Yuan Wang, Xiang Zhang, Hartmut Häffner

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