Molecular spintronics: Coherent spin transfer in coupled quantum dots

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 69, Issue 19, 2004, Pages

  Meier, Florian ^a,b   Cerletti, Veronica ^b   Gywat, Oliver ^b   Loss, Daniel ^b   Awschalom, D D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ELECTRON; ENERGY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; PROBABILITY; QUANTUM DOT; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SEMICONDUCTOR;

EID: 42749105151     PISSN: 01631829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.69.195315     Document Type: Article

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