Observation of Faraday rotation from a single confined spin

Nature Physics

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 101-105

  Atatüre, Mete ^a   Dreiser, Jan ^a   Badolato, Antonio ^a   Imamoglu, Atac ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NANOCRYSTALS; POLARIZATION; QUANTUM OPTICS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SPIN DYNAMICS;

BACK ACTION EVADING; HIGHER EFFICIENCY; SCATTERING EVENTS; SINGLE ELECTRON; SOLID IMMERSION LENS; SOLID-STATE QUANTUM INFORMATION PROCESSING; SPIN MEASUREMENT; TRANSPORT MEASUREMENTS;

QUANTUM DOT LASERS;

EID: 33846821954     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys521     Document Type: Article

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