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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

Controlling ultracold molecular reactions through nuclear spins

Lingbang Zhu, Matthew A. Nichols, Yu Liu, Ming-Guang Hu, Yi-Xiang Liu, Kang-Kuen Ni

Published Jun 4, 2021• 0 citations
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