Quantum control of a spin qubit coupled to a photonic crystal cavity

Nature Photonics

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 329-334

  Carter, Samuel G ^a   Sweeney, Timothy M ^a   Kim, Mijin ^b   Kim, Chul Soo ^a   Solenov, Dmitry ^a   Economou, Sophia E ^a   Reinecke, Thomas L ^a   Yang, Lily ^a   Bracker, Allan S ^a   Gammon, Daniel ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b SOTERA DEFENSE SOLUTIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL ARCHITECTURE; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL CAVITIES; QUANTUM CONTROL; QUANTUM MEMORY; QUANTUM NETWORK; SINGLE ELECTRON; SINGLE ELECTRON SPIN; SOLID STATE QUBITS;

ELECTROSPINNING; MAGNETIC MOMENTS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM COMPUTERS; QUANTUM OPTICS; QUANTUM THEORY; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SPIN DYNAMICS;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 84875810564     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2013.41     Document Type: Article

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