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Annals of Physics

Macroscopic entanglement distribution with atomic ensembles

Shuang Li, Jin Hu, I. D. Lazarev, Jonathan Raghoonanan, Valentin Ivannikov, Alexey N. Pyrkov, Tim Byrnes

Published Jul 9, 2026• 0 citations
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10.1016/j.aop.2026.170618

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