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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

Direct Observation of Topological Invariants using Quantum Walks

Vinay Ramasesh, Emmanuel Flurin, Shay Hacohen-Gourgy, Leigh S. Martin, Irfan A. Siddiqi, Norman Y. Yao

Published Jun 7, 2017• 0 citations
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