Room-temperature coherent coupling of single spins in diamond

Nature Physics

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 408-413

  Gaebel, Torsten ^a   Domhan, Michael ^a   Popa, Iulian ^a   Wittmann, Christoffer ^a   Neumann, Philipp ^a   Jelezko, Fedor ^a   Rabeau, James R ^b   Stavrias, Nikolas ^b   Greentree, Andrew D ^b   Prawer, Steven ^b   Meijer, Jan ^c   Twamley, Jason ^d   Hemmer, Philip R ^e   Wrachtrup, Jörg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^d MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e Texas AandM University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT COUPLING; SINGLE SPIN;

EID: 33744832160     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys318     Document Type: Article

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