Electron spin coherence exceeding seconds in high-purity silicon

Nature Materials

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 143-147

  Tyryshkin, Alexei M ^a   Tojo, Shinichi ^b   Morton, John J L ^c   Riemann, Helge ^d   Abrosimov, Nikolai V ^d   Becker, Peter ^e   Pohl, Hans Joachim ^f   Schenkel, Thomas ^g   Thewalt, Michael L W ^h   Itoh, Kohei M ^b   Lyon, S A ^a  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR CRYSTAL GROWTH   (Germany)

^e PHYSIKALISCH TECHNISCHE BUNDESANSTALT   (Germany)

^f VITCON Projectconsult Gmbh   (Germany)

^g LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^h SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONS; MAGNETIC MOMENTS; QUANTUM COMPUTERS; QUANTUM THEORY; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; SILICON; SPIN DYNAMICS; TRAPPED IONS;

ADVANCED FABRICATION; ELECTRON SPIN COHERENCE; HIGH VACUUM SYSTEMS; HIGH-PURITY SILICON; INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICES; MAGNETIC FIELD GRADIENT; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; SUPERCONDUCTING QUBITS;

ELECTROSPINNING;

EID: 84856104755     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3182     Document Type: Article

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