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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

Using topology and parametric driving to design robust, non-reciprocal quantum amplifiers

Martin Houde, Vittorio Peano, Florian Marquardt, Aashish A. Clerk

Published Mar 16, 2017• 0 citations
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