Ultrafast coherent control and suppressed nuclear feedback of a single quantum dot hole qubit

Nature Physics

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 872-878

  De Greve, Kristiaan ^a,d   McMahon, Peter L ^a   Press, David ^a   Ladd, Thaddeus D ^a,b,d   Bisping, Dirk ^c   Schneider, Christian ^c   Kamp, Martin ^c   Worschech, Lukas ^c   Höfling, Sven ^a,c   Forchel, Alfred ^c   Yamamoto, Yoshihisa ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^d Hughes Aircraft Co   (United States)

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EID: 80555123026     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys2078     Document Type: Article

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