Ultrafast control of donor-bound electron spins with single detuned optical pulses

Nature Physics

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 780-784

  Fu, Kai Mei C ^a   Clark, Susan M ^b   Santori, Charles ^a   Stanley, Colin R ^c   Holland, M C ^c   Yamamoto, Yoshihisa ^b,d  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANG BANG CONTROL SYSTEMS; ELECTRONS; ELECTROSPINNING; LASER PULSES; MAGNETIC MOMENTS; QUANTUM OPTICS; RESONANCE; SPIN DYNAMICS;

BROADBAND OPTICAL PULSE; COHERENT MANIPULATION; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE TECHNIQUES; PULSE IMPERFECTIONS; QUANTUM-INFORMATION PROCESSING; SINGLE-QUBIT ROTATIONS; THREE LEVEL SYSTEMS; ULTRAFAST CONTROL;

ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 53349166342     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys1052     Document Type: Article

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