Dephasing time of GaAs electron-spin qubits coupled to a nuclear bath exceeding 200μs

Nature Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 109-113

  Bluhm, Hendrik ^a   Foletti, Sandra ^a   Neder, Izhar ^a   Rudner, Mark ^a   Mahalu, Diana ^b   Umansky, Vladimir ^b   Yacoby, Amir ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONS; GALLIUM ARSENIDE; III-V SEMICONDUCTORS; MAGNETIC MOMENTS; QUANTUM OPTICS; QUBITS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SPIN DYNAMICS; SPIN POLARIZATION;

ELECTRON SPIN QUBITS; INFORMATION LOSS; LARMOR PRECESSION; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; QUANTUM COMPUTING; QUANTUM MECHANICAL; SEMICLASSICAL MODEL; SPIN-ECHO MEASUREMENTS;

ELECTROSPINNING;

EID: 79551629233     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys1856     Document Type: Article

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