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Strong-Field Ionization Phenomena Revealed by Quantum Trajectories
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Transition from Surface to Volume Expansion in Argon Clusters Coulomb Explosion
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Fundamental Limits of Feedback Cooling Ultracold Atomic Gases
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Conditional Dynamics in Heterodyne Detection of Superradiant Lasing with Incoherently Pumped Atoms
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Evolution of Propagating Coherent Pulses Driving a Single Superconducting Artificial Atom
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Avalanche Terahertz Photon Detection in a Rydberg Tweezer Array
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Self-Suppressed Quantum-Limited Timing Jitter and Fundamental Noise Limit of Soliton Microcombs
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Topological Structures of Energy Flow: Poynting Vector Skyrmions
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Quantum Interference at the Recombination Junction of Perovskite-Si Tandem Solar Cells Improves Efficiency
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Data-Driven Learning of the Generalized Langevin Equation with State-Dependent Memory
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