Coherent population trapping of an electron spin in a single negatively charged quantum dot

Nature Physics

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 692-695

  Xu, Xiaodong ^a   Sun, Bo ^a   Berman, Paul R ^a   Steel, Duncan G ^a   Bracker, Allan S ^b   Gammon, Dan ^b   Sham, L J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONS; GALLIUM ARSENIDE; GROUND STATE; III-V SEMICONDUCTORS; MAGNETIC MOMENTS; NANOCRYSTALS; QUANTUM OPTICS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SLOW LIGHT; SPIN DYNAMICS;

ARBITRARY SUPERPOSITION; COHERENT OPTICAL FIELDS; COHERENT POPULATION TRAPPING; COHERENT SUPERPOSITIONS; ELECTROMAGNETICALLY-INDUCED TRANSPARENCY; FLUORESCENCE TECHNIQUE; QUANTUM INFORMATION STORAGE; THREE-LEVEL ATOMIC SYSTEMS;

ELECTROSPINNING;

EID: 51049116411     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys1054     Document Type: Article

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