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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

Probing Entanglement in a Many-Body-Localized System

Robert Schittko, Alexander Lukin, Matthew Rispoli, M. Eric Tai, Adam M. Kaufman, Soonwon Choi, Vedika Khemani, Julian Léonard, Markus Greiner

Published Mar 6, 2019• 0 citations
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