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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

Experimental progress towards a prethermal discrete time crystal

A. Kyprianidis, P. Becker, K. S. Collins, William Morong, Lei Feng, Whee-Keng Tan, Ayanabha De, Guido Pagano, Paul Hess, Francisco Machado, Dominic V. Else, Chetan Nayak, Norman Y. Yao, Christopher R. Monroe

Published Jun 4, 2020• 0 citations
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