Spin interactions, relaxation and decoherence in quantum dots

Solid State Communications

Volumn 149, Issue 35-36, 2009, Pages 1443-1450

  Fischer, Jan ^a   Trif, Mircea ^a   Coish, W A ^b   Loss, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

A. Nanostructures; A. Semiconductors; D. Spin dynamics

Indexed keywords

A. NANOSTRUCTURES; A. SEMICONDUCTORS; D. SPIN DYNAMICS; DECOHERENCE; ELECTRON-SPIN RELAXATION; ELECTRONS AND HOLES; OF QUANTUM-INFORMATION; PROCESSING DEVICE; QUANTUM COMPUTATION; QUANTUM DOT; SPIN DECOHERENCE; SPIN INTERACTION; SPIN-QUBITS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL QUANTUM DOTS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; ELECTRONS; NANOSTRUCTURES; QUANTUM COMPUTERS; QUANTUM OPTICS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

SPIN DYNAMICS;

EID: 67650607487     PISSN: 00381098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssc.2009.04.033     Document Type: Article

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