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Lecture notes in computer science

Evolutionary Algorithms for the Design of Quantum Protocols

Walter O. Krawec, Stjepan Picek, Domagoj Jakobović

Published Jan 1, 2019• 11 citations
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DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-16692-2_15

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