Quantum-dot spin-photon entanglement via frequency downconversion to telecom wavelength

Nature

Volumn 491, Issue 7424, 2012, Pages 421-425

  De Greve, Kristiaan ^a,e   Yu, Leo ^a   McMahon, Peter L ^a   Pelc, Jason S ^a   Natarajan, Chandra M ^a,b   Kim, Na Young ^a   Abe, Eisuke ^a,c   Maier, Sebastian ^d   Schneider, Christian ^d   Kamp, Martin ^d   Höfling, Sven ^a,d   Hadfield, Robert H ^b   Forchel, Alfred ^d   Fejer, M M ^a   Yamamoto, Yoshihisa ^a,c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUANTUM DOT;

ELECTRON; QUANTUM MECHANICS; TELECOMMUNICATION; WAVELENGTH;

ARTICLE; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; ENERGY; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMICONDUCTOR; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY;

EID: 84869046069     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11577     Document Type: Article

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