Excited-state spin coherence of a single nitrogen-vacancy centre in diamond

Nature Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 668-672

  Fuchs, G D ^a   Dobrovitski, V V ^b   Toyli, D M ^a   Heremans, F J ^a   Weis, C D ^c   Schenkel, T ^c   Awschalom, D D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER EXCITATION; MICROWAVE OSCILLATORS; NITROGEN; QUANTUM OPTICS; SPIN DYNAMICS;

FINE STRUCTURES; FINITE TEMPERATURES; NITROGEN VACANCIES; QUANTUM CONTROL; QUANTUM INFORMATION; QUANTUM RESOURCES; RABI OSCILLATIONS; RESONANT CONTROLS;

EXCITED STATES;

EID: 77956343337     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys1716     Document Type: Article

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