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Direct Laser Cooling of Rydberg Atoms with an Isolated-Core Transition
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Nonreciprocal Superradiant Phase Transitions and Multicriticality in a Cavity QED System
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Approaching Maximal Precision of Hong-Ou-Mandel Interferometry with Nonperfect Visibility
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Universally Robust Quantum Control
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Structure of Graphene Grown on Cu(111): X-Ray Standing Wave Measurement and Density Functional Theory Prediction
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