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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

Analysis of decoherence mechanisms in a single-atom quantum memory

Matthias Körber, Stefan Langenfeld, Olivier Morin, Andreas Neuzner, Stephan Ritter, Gerhard Rempe

Published Jun 7, 2017• 0 citations
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