Observation of an anomalous decoherence effect in a quantum bath at room temperature

Nature Communications

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Huang, Pu ^a   Kong, Xi ^a   Zhao, Nan ^b   Shi, Fazhan ^a   Wang, Pengfei ^a   Rong, Xing ^a   Liu, Ren Bao ^b   Du, Jiangfeng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON 13; DIAMOND; NITROGEN; CARBON;

ANOMALOUS DECOHERENCE EFFECT; ARTICLE; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; EXPERIMENTATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; QUANTUM BATH; QUANTUM MECHANICS; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SIMULATION; THEORETICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRON; INFORMATION SCIENCE; LASER; METHODOLOGY; MICROWAVE RADIATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; QUANTUM THEORY; SPIN TRAPPING; STATISTICS; TEMPERATURE;

CARBON ISOTOPES; CRYSTALLIZATION; DIAMOND; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; ELECTRONS; INFORMATION THEORY; LASERS; MICROWAVES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NITROGEN; QUANTUM THEORY; SPIN TRAPPING; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84455171597     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1579     Document Type: Article

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