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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

What is the effect of decoherence on an analog quantum simulator

Sebastian Zanker, Jan Reiner, Iris Schwenk, Juha Leppäkangas, Michael Marthaler

Published Mar 15, 2017• 0 citations
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