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Toward a Mølmer Sørensen gate with .9999 fidelity [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 2023
Realistic fault-tolerant quantum computing at reasonable overhead requires two-qubit gates with the highest possible fidelity. Typically, an infidelity of ≲10−4 is recommended in the literature.
Reinhold Blümel, A. Maksymov, Ming Li
semanticscholar   +1 more source

America in Performance of 20th Century Identity and Individualism in Chrissie Hynde’s Reckless

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Life Writing, 2022
Chrissie Hynde relocated to London from her native Ohio in 1973. She has now spent well over twice as much time in Britain as she has in America, only moving back briefly to care for her dying parents - whose passing facilitated the releasing of her ...
James Masterson
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‘I found what I had lost: myself’. Writing as a form of self-care in times of crisis

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Life Writing, 2022
This essay is situated within the broad area of autoethnography, particularly referring to the idea of ‘writing about writing’, which is grounded in the reflection of the process of writing and the contexts in which that writing occur. The author employs
Aneta Ostaszewska
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‘The Great Scene That Never Happened’ – A Screenwriter’s Techniques of Blending Fact and Fiction in Creating a Compelling Character Arc in Biopics

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Life Writing, 2021
The biopic as a genre treads a thin line between fact and fiction. Using the theory and methods of visual storytelling and screenwriting, I will lay open the thought process and the tools of the craft that are employed to create a character arc using ...
Maria Hinterkörner
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‘For better or for worse, there is history, there is the book and then there's the movie’: Foregrounding and Marginalizing African American Women in the Film Hidden Figures (2016)

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Life Writing, 2021
This paper critically examines the representation of gender and race in the biographical drama film Hidden Figures (2016), directed by Theodore Melfi.
Timo Frühwirth   +3 more
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Helen Southworth. Fresca. A Life in the Making. A Biographer’s Quest for a Forgotten Bloomsbury Polymath

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Life Writing, 2020
The subject of Southworth’s book is Francesca (Fresca) Allinson (1902–1945), a puppeteer, choral conductor, writer and creator of folksongs, whose life was cut short by drowning. She grew up in a gifted and thoroughly non-conformist family.
Heleen van Duijn
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Finding a Tongue: Autobiography Beyond Definition

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Life Writing, 2017
The outset of Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man presents a stage of life and language that is commonly evoked and, at the same time, systematically avoided in autobiographies as well as theoretical approaches to language: infancy.
Juliane Prade-Weiss
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Introduction: GENDER AND POLITICS IN AUTO/BIOGRAPHIES

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Life Writing, 2016
Politicians all over Europe used to write about their lives, and keep doing so. Like other well-known persons they are “unusual biographical subjects”, because the biographical activity concerning their lives often starts while they are still alive ...
Anneke Ribberink   +3 more
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Deportation, Memory and the Self in Dalia Grinkevičiūtė’s Memoirs A Stolen Youth, A Stolen Homeland and Lithuanians by the Laptev Sea

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Life Writing, 2014
The present discussion adresses the issue of deportation, displacement, memory and the self in Dalia Grinkevičiūtė’s Lietuviai prie Laptevų jūros: Atsiminimai, miniatiūros, laiškai, written in 1949–50, first published in 1997 and in 2002 translated as A ...
Audrone Raskauskiene
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A Boy’s Own Trauma: Revisiting a Photograph Recorded in a Nazi Concentration Camp First Encountered as a Child

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Life Writing, 2020
Photographer Roelof Bakker revisits a George Rodger photograph recorded in a Nazi concentration camp, Bakker first encountered as a child growing up in the Netherlands forty years ago.
Roelof Bakker
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