Supplementary Information for : Attractive Photons in a Quantum Nonlinear Medium
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Ofer Firstenberg∗1, Thibault Peyronel∗2, Qi-Yu Liang, Alexey V. Gorshkov, Mikhail D. Lukin, and Vladan Vuletić Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 02138 Department of Physics and Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA Institute for Quantum Information and Matter, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA and * These authors contributed equally to this work
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