Far-field optical imaging and manipulation of individual spins with nanoscale resolution

Nature Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 912-918

  Maurer, P C ^a   Maze, J R ^a,b   Stanwix, P L ^c,d   Jiang, L ^e   Gorshkov, A V ^a   Zibrov, A A ^a   Harke, B ^f   Hodges, J S ^a,g   Zibrov, A S ^a   Yacoby, A ^a   Twitchen, D ^h   Hell, S W ^f   Walsworth, R L ^a,c   Lukin, M D ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^c HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^g Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^h ELEMENT SIX LTD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); DIFFRACTION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL ENGINEERING; QUANTUM OPTICS;

COHERENT ROTATION; CONVENTIONAL TECHNIQUES; LASER INTENSITIES; NANOSCALE RESOLUTIONS; NITROGEN VACANCIES; OPTICAL TECHNIQUE; QUANTUM INFORMATION SCIENCE; SPIN DEGREES OF FREEDOM;

MAGNETOMETRY;

EID: 78149283746     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys1774     Document Type: Article

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