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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

Optimizing Adiabaticity in a Trapped-Ion Quantum Simulator

Phil Richerme, Crystal Senko, S. É. Korenblit, Jacob Smith, Aaron Lee, Christopher R. Monroe

Published Jun 6, 2013• 0 citations
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