A large-scale quantum simulator on a diamond surface at room temperature

Nature Physics

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 168-173

  Cai, Jianming ^a   Retzker, Alex ^a,b   Jelezko, Fedor ^a   Plenio, Martin B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAMONDS; NITROGEN; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SIMULATORS; SPIN DYNAMICS; TEMPERATURE;

AMBIENT CONDITIONS; COMPUTATIONAL BARRIERS; NITROGEN-VACANCY CENTER; QUANTUM MANY-BODY SYSTEMS; QUANTUM SIMULATIONS; QUANTUM SIMULATORS; SOLID-STATE ARCHITECTURES; TEMPERATURE AND PRESSURES;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 84874649083     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys2519     Document Type: Article

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