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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

Metasurface route to quantum state engineering

Pankaj Jha, Nir Shitrit, Jeongmin Kim, Xuexin Ren, Yuan Wang, Xiang Zhang

Published Mar 16, 2017• 0 citations
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