A single-photon turnstile device

Nature

Volumn 397, Issue 6719, 1999, Pages 500-503

  Kim, J ^a   Benson, O ^a   Kan, H ^b   Yamamoto, Y ^a,c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CENTRAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Japan)

^c NTT Basic Research Laboratories   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; OPTICS; PHOTON; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0033545306     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/17295     Document Type: Article

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