Ultrafast optical spin echo in a single quantum dot

Nature Photonics

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 367-370

  Press, David ^a   De Greve, Kristiaan ^a   McMahon, Peter L ^a   Ladd, Thaddeus D ^a,b,d   Friess, Benedikt ^a,c   Schneider, Christian ^c   Kamp, Martin ^c   Höfling, Sven ^c   Forchel, Alfred ^c   Yamamoto, Yoshihisa ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^d Hughes Aircraft Co   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECOHERENCE TIME; ELECTRICAL CONTROL; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PHOTONIC NETWORK; QUANTUM INFORMATION; SINGLE ELECTRON; SINGLE QUANTUM DOT; SPIN ECHO TECHNIQUES;

ELECTROSPINNING; MAGNETIC MOMENTS; QUANTUM COMPUTERS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SPIN POLARIZATION;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 77954820286     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2010.83     Document Type: Article

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