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Stern-Gerlach deflection of vector spatio-temporal soliton pairs in cold Rydberg gases

Aixia Wu, Jin-Ting Du, Yun-Bin Lei, Kai-Yu Huang, Yunzhou Sun, Yuan Zhao, L. Xue, Si-Liu Xu, Milivoj R. Belić

Published Nov 27, 2021• 0 citations
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10.1016/j.ijleo.2021.168377

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