A solid-state light-matter interface at the single-photon level

Nature

Volumn 456, Issue 7223, 2008, Pages 773-777

  De Riedmatten, Hugues ^a   Afzelius, Mikael ^a   Staudt, Matthias U ^a   Simon, Christoph ^a   Gisin, Nicolas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GAS; LIGHT; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; ATOM; EPITOPE MAPPING; LIGHT; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SOLID STATE;

EID: 57649116247     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07607     Document Type: Article

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