Coherent optical control of electronic excitations in functionalized semiconductor nanostructures

Quantum Information and Computation

Volumn 5, Issue 4-5, 2005, Pages 318-334

  Rego, L G C ^a   Abuabara, S G ^b   Batista, V S ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adsorbates; Coherent control; Semiconductors; Wave packet dynamics

Indexed keywords

ADSORBATES; NANOSTRUCTURES; OXIDE MINERALS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MODELS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

COHERENT CONTROL; COHERENT EXCITATIONS; ELECTRONIC EXCITATION; ELECTROOPTIC DEVICES; OF QUANTUM-INFORMATION; QUANTUM DYNAMICS SIMULATION; SEMICONDUCTOR NANOSTRUCTURES; WAVE-PACKET DYNAMICS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 23744464833     PISSN: 15337146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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