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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

Optimized pulse shaping for trapped ion quantum computing

T. Andrew Manning, Shantanu Debnath, Taeyoung Choi, Caroline Figgatt, Chris Monroe

Published Jun 5, 2013• 0 citations
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