Properties of nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond: The group theoretic approach

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 13, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Maze, J R ^a,b   Gali, A ^c,d   Togan, E ^a   Chu, Y ^a   Trifonov, A ^a,e   Kaxiras, E ^a   Lukin, M D ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^c BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

^d INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^e IOFFE INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC CONFIGURATION; GROUP THEORY; LOCAL DEFECTS; LOW TEMPERATURE LIMIT; NITROGEN-VACANCY CENTER; OPTICAL SELECTION RULES; PHOTON ENTANGLEMENT; QUANTUM INFORMATION SCIENCE; SPIN ORBIT INTERACTIONS; SPIN-ORBIT EFFECTS; SPIN-SPIN;

ELECTRIC FIELDS; QUANTUM OPTICS; TEMPERATURE;

ALGEBRA;

EID: 79952276142     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/13/2/025025     Document Type: Article

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