Quantum entanglement between an optical photon and a solid-state spin qubit

Nature

Volumn 466, Issue 7307, 2010, Pages 730-734

  Togan, E ^a   Chu, Y ^a   Trifonov, A S ^a   Jiang, L ^a,b,c   Maze, J ^a   Childress, L ^a,d   Dutt, M V G ^a,e   Sorensen A S ^f   Hemmer, P R ^g   Zibrov, A S ^a   Lukin, M D ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d BATES COLLEGE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^g Texas AandM University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAMOND; NITROGEN; QUANTUM DOT;

DIAMOND; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; ION; POLARIZATION; QUANTUM MECHANICS;

ARTICLE; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; OPTICS; PHOTON; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SOLID STATE;

EID: 77955501768     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09256     Document Type: Article

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