Single-atom gating of quantum-state superpositions

Nature Physics

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 454-458

  Moon, Christopher R ^a   Lutz, Christopher P ^b   Manoharan, Hari C ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); HILBERT SPACES; QUANTUM OPTICS; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY;

ANGLE OF ROTATION; COHERENT SUPERPOSITIONS; CONDENSED MATTER; ELECTRONIC DEVICE; GEOMETRIC INTERPRETATION; QUANTUM STATE MANIPULATION; SINGLE ELECTRONICS; STRAIGHT-FORWARD METHOD;

VECTOR SPACES;

EID: 44849131270     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys930     Document Type: Article

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