Concatenated Composite Pulses Applied to Liquid-State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy

Masamitsu Bando1, Tsubasa Ichikawa2, Yasushi Kondo3,4,5

  • 1Kindai University Technical College, 7-1 Kasugaoaka, Nabari, Mie, 518-0459, Japan.

Scientific Reports
|February 9, 2020
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