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  "abstract": "Precisely timed, multi-device control in atomic, molecular and optical physics is provided by specialized real-time systems, which impose their own terms on the description of the experiment: a program over a global clock, in which every stage boundary is an absolute time computed from everything preceding it. Such descriptions are tightly coupled -- changing one stage affects all later ones -- and are correspondingly hard to reuse, inspect, or move elsewhere. We introduce Wigner Time, a Python package in which the experimental procedure is instead represented as data: a table of timed updates, assembled by composing functions and referred to named points in the experiment rather than to absolute instants. Hardware enters only at a final conversion step, leaving the description readable and back-end agnostic. Wigner Time has run two cold-atom setups for more than two years, where taking the computation out of the real-time program improved the achievable temporal resolution five-fold; the design applies to any domain requiring precise multi-device timing.",
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      "name": "T. W. Clark"
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      "name": "A. Dombi"
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      "name": "Á. Kurkó"
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    {
      "name": "D. Nagy"
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    {
      "name": "A. Simon"
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    {
      "name": "D. Varga"
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    {
      "name": "P. Domokos"
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    {
      "name": "A. Vukics"
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  "pdf_url": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2609.06230",
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  "published": "2026-10-19",
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  "title": "Wigner Time: from experimental intent to real-time laboratory control",
  "title_text": "Wigner Time: from experimental intent to real-time laboratory control",
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