Spin state tomography of optically injected electrons in a semiconductor

Nature

Volumn 457, Issue 7230, 2009, Pages 702-705

  Kosaka, Hideo ^a,b   Inagaki, Takahiro ^a   Rikitake, Yoshiaki ^b,c   Imamura, Hiroshi ^b,d   Mitsumori, Yasuyoshi ^a,b   Edamatsu, Keiichi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c SENDAI NATIONAL COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON; POLARIZATION; QUANTUM MECHANICS; TOMOGRAPHY;

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; ELECTRON; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; MAGNETISM; MEASUREMENT; OPTICS; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; ROTATION; SEMICONDUCTOR; SOLID; TECHNIQUE; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 59649128294     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07729     Document Type: Article

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