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T Delord1, P Huillery1, L Schwab1

  • 1Laboratoire Pierre Aigrain, Ecole normale supérieure, PSL Research University, CNRS, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Sorbonne Universités, Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris-Cité, 24 rue Lhomond, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France.

Physical Review Letters
|August 18, 2018
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