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Physical Review A

Time-reversed Landau-Zener tunneling in synthetic temporal lattices

Lange Zhao, Shulin Wang, Chengzhi Qin, Zhuoxiong Liu, Lingzhi Zheng, Bing Wang, Peixiang Lu

Published Jun 20, 2025• 0 citations
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10.1103/jv83-xgvs

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