Deterministic coupling of single quantum dots to single nanocavity modes

Science

Volumn 308, Issue 5725, 2005, Pages 1158-1161

  Badolato, Antonio ^a   Hennessy, Kevin ^a   Atatüre, Mete ^b   Dreiser, Jan ^b   Hu, Evelyn ^a   Petroff, Pierre M ^a   Imamoǧlu, Atac ^b  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALS; ELECTRODYNAMICS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MEMBRANES; PHOTONS; QUANTUM THEORY; SELF ASSEMBLY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

NANOCAVITY; QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS (QED); QUANTUM INFORMATION PROCESSING; SINGLE QUANTUM DOTS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

NANOPARTICLE; QUANTUM DOT;

PHYSICS;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SOLID STATE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 18844418460     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1109815     Document Type: Article

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