Variation of power-law dynamics caused by dark state recovery of fluorescence intermittency of a single quantum system

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6258, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Schuster, Jörg ^a   Cichos, Frank ^a   Von Borczyskowski, Christian ^a  

^a CHEMNITZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC EXCITATION; FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; SILICA;

FLUORESCENCE INTERMITTENCY; POWER LAW DISTRIBUTIONS; POWER-LAW DYNAMICS; SINGLE QUANTUM SYSTEM;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 33646455328     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.677043     Document Type: Conference Paper

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