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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

Unraveling quantum and classical speed limits on observables

Luis Pedro García-Pintos, Adolfo del Campo, Alexey Vyacheslavovich Gorshkov, Jason R. Green, Schyuler Nicholson

Published Mar 18, 2021• 0 citations
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