Laser cooling and real-time measurement of the nuclear spin environment of a solid-state qubit

Nature

Volumn 478, Issue 7370, 2011, Pages 497-501

  Togan, E ^a   Chu, Y ^a   Imamoglu, A ^b   Lukin, M D ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAMOND; NITROGEN; QUANTUM DOT;

COOLING; LASER; MAGNETOMETER; OPTICAL METHOD; QUANTUM MECHANICS; REAL TIME;

ARTICLE; COHERENT POPULATION TRAPPING; COOLING; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION STORAGE; LASER; LASER COOLING; MEASUREMENT; NANOMAGNETOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLID STATE; SPIN TRAPPING;

EID: 80054996045     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature10528     Document Type: Article

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