Hybridization of electronic states in quantum dots through photon emission

Nature

Volumn 427, Issue 6970, 2004, Pages 135-138

  Karrai, Khaled ^a   Warburton, Richard J ^b   Schulhauser, Christian ^a   Högele, Alexander ^a   Urbaszek, Bernhard ^b   McGhee, Ewan J ^b   Govorav, Alexander O ^c,d   Garcia, Jorge M ^e   Gerardot, Brian D ^f   Petroff, Pierre M ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF SEMICONDUCTOR PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^e INSTITUTO DE MICROELECTRÓNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^f University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC PHYSICS; DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; PHOTONIC PROPULSION; QUANTUM OPTICS;

ELECTRONIC STATES;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY;

ARTICLE; ELEMENTARY PARTICLE; HYBRIDIZATION; LOW TEMPERATURE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SEMICONDUCTOR;

EID: 0347717939     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02109     Document Type: Article

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