Single-spin addressing in an atomic Mott insulator

Nature

Volumn 471, Issue 7338, 2011, Pages 319-325

  Weitenberg, Christof ^a   Endres, Manuel ^a   Sherson, Jacob F ^a,c   Cheneau, Marc ^a   Schau, Peter ^a   Fukuhara, Takeshi ^a   Bloch, Immanuel ^a,b   Kuhr, Stefan ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRAY; ENTROPY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INSULATION; QUANTUM MECHANICS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ARTICLE; ATOM; ENTROPY; LASER; MICROWAVE RADIATION; MOTT INSULATOR; PHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SINGLE SPIN CONTROL; SPIN CONTROL;

EID: 79952782806     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09827     Document Type: Article

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