Storage of quantum coherences as phase-labelled local polarization in solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 370, Issue 1976, 2012, Pages 4713-4733

  Franzoni, María Belén ^a   Acosta, Rodolfo H ^a   Pastawski, Horacio M ^a   Levstein, Patricia R ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Decoherence; Nuclear magnetic resonance; Quantum coherences; Spin dynamics

Indexed keywords

NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; POLARIZATION; QUANTUM OPTICS; SPIN DYNAMICS;

COHERENT STATE; DECOHERENCE; DECOHERENCE TIME; DECOUPLING TECHNIQUE; FIELD GRADIENT; HAHN ECHO; HOMOGENEOUS SAMPLES; INHOMOGENEITIES; INHOMOGENEOUS FIELDS; LOCAL POLARIZATION; MAGNETIZATION DECAY; MULTI-PULSE SEQUENCE; NUCLEAR SPINS; PULSE SEQUENCE; QUANTUM COHERENCE; QUANTUM-INFORMATION PROCESSING; SOLID-STATE NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 84866355181     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2011.0363     Document Type: Article

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