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Chaos Solitons & Fractals

Quantum information scrambling and entanglement generation in a Rydberg-dressed atom driven by tunable long-range interactions and quantum fluctuations

Mahmoud Youssef Abd‐Rabbou, Ameenah N. Al‐Ahmadi, Hanin Ardah, Abdel‐Haleem Abdel‐Aty

Published Jan 29, 2026• 4 citations
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10.1016/j.chaos.2026.117995

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