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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

Ultrafast Quantum Processing at Room-Temperature in Bulk Diamond Phonons

Benjamin Sussman, Philip J. Bustard, K.C. Lee, Michael Sprague, Joshua Nunn, Nathan K. Langford, Xinzhe Jin, Ian A. Walmsley, Doug Moffatt, Rune Lausten

Published Jun 7, 2012• 0 citations
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