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The robustness of XRD methods for the determination of the lattice parameters of crystals is well established. These methods have been extended to helical atomic structures using twisted x-rays \cite{friesecke_twisted_2016}. Building on an…
We provide a necessary condition that a quantum measurement can be implemented by the class of protocols known as Local Operations and Classical Communication, or LOCC, including when an error is allowed but must vanish in the limit of an…
Generic Hamiltonian systems have a mixed phase space where regions of regular and chaotic motion coexist. We present a method for constructing an integrable approximation to such regular phase-space regions including a nonlinear resonance…
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