Optically controlled locking of the nuclear field via coherent dark-state sopctroscopy

Nature

Volumn 459, Issue 7250, 2009, Pages 1105-1109

  Xu, Xiaodong ^a   Yao, Wang ^d   Sun, Bo ^a   Steel, Duncan G ^a   Bracker, Allan S ^b   Gammon, Daniel ^b   Sham, L J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUANTUM DOT;

ELECTRON; LASER; POLARIZATION; QUANTUM MECHANICS; RESONANCE;

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 67649518197     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature08120     Document Type: Article

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