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Nature Reviews Physics

Taking atom interferometric quantum sensors from the laboratory to real-world applications

Kai Bongs, Michael Holynski, Jamie Vovrosh, Philippe Bouyer, G. Condon, Ernst Maria Rasel, Christian Schubert, Wolfgang P. Schleich, Albert Roura

Published Oct 28, 2019• 384 citations
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10.1038/s42254-019-0117-4

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