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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

A quantum-classical hybrid variational algorithm using trapped ions

Antonios Kyprianidis, Guido Pagano, Patrick Becker, Katherine Collins, Harvey Kaplan, W. Tan, Aniruddha Bapat, Lucas T. Brady, Alexey Vyacheslavovich Gorshkov, Stephen P. Jordan, Christopher R. Monroe

Published May 30, 2019• 0 citations
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