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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

Simulation Driven Search for Promising Quantum Defects in Diamond

Isaac Harris, Christopher J. Ciccarino, Blake Duschatko, Dirk Englund, Prineha Narang

Published Mar 5, 2019• 0 citations
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