An ab initio study of local vibration modes of thenitrogen-vacancy center in diamond

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 13, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Gali, A ^a,b   Simon, T ^a   Lowther, J E ^c  

^a BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AB INITIO STUDY; AMBIENT CONDITIONS; DOUBLE PEAK; LOCAL VIBRATION MODES; NITROGEN ATOM; NV CENTER; SOLID STATE QUBITS; ULTRASENSITIVE; VIBRATION MODES;

DEFECTS;

VIBRATING CONVEYORS;

EID: 79952255355     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/13/2/025016     Document Type: Article

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