All-optical control of a solid-state spin using coherent dark states

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 19, 2013, Pages 7595-7600

  Yale, Christopher G ^a,c   Buckley, Bob B ^a   Christle, David J ^a,c   Burkard, Guido ^b   Heremans, F Joseph ^a,c   Bassett, Lee C ^a   Awschalom, David D ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Quantum control; Quantum optics; Semiconductor defects; Spintronics

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN; QUANTUM DOT;

ARTICLE; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; GEOMETRY; OPTICAL ROTATION; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOLID STATE; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84877326665     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1305920110     Document Type: Article

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