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Vladimir P. Oleshko, Renaat Gijbels, Severin Amelinckx
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The cement industry is moving toward customized commodity products, requiring plants that were built to consistently produce thousands of tons of one product
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We present an experimental demonstration of a phase qubit acting as an on/o® switch for the absorbtion of photons in a probe microwave beam. The switch is
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Dustin Hite, Yves Colombe, Andrew C. Wilson, Kenton R. Brown, Ulrich J. Warring, Robert Jordens, John D. Jost, David P. Pappas, Dietrich Leibfried, David J. Wineland, Kyle McKay
Anomalous heating of trapped atomic ions is a major obstacle to their use as quantum bits in scalable quantum computers. The physical origin of this electric
Ted C. Thorbeck, Akira Fujiwara, Neil M. Zimmerman
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Matthew R. Pufall, William H. Rippard, Stephen E. Russek, Eric R. Evarts
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The National Institute of Standards and Technologys Standards Coordination Office offers training to government agencies on standards, conformity assessment
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