A single-atom quantum memory

Nature

Volumn 473, Issue 7346, 2011, Pages 190-193

  Specht, Holger P ^a,b   Nölleke, Christian ^a   Reiserer, Andreas ^a   Uphoff, Manuel ^a   Figueroa, Eden ^a   Ritter, Stephan ^a   Rempe, Gerhard ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

^b OSRAM OPTO SEMICONDUCTORS GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUANTUM DOT;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DETECTION METHOD; LIGHT EFFECT; OPTICAL PROPERTY; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POLARIZATION; QUANTUM MECHANICS; TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; EXCITATION; LIGHT; MEMORY; PHOTON; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 79955918746     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09997     Document Type: Article

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