Solid-state electronic spin coherence time approaching one second

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Bar Gill, N ^a,b   Pham, L M ^b   Jarmola, A ^c   Budker, D ^c,d   Walsworth, R L ^a,b  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN;

DIAMOND; ELECTRON; NITROGEN; QUANTUM MECHANICS;

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC PROCEDURES; MEASUREMENT; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOLID STATE; SPIN COHERENCE TIME; TEMPERATURE; TIME;

EID: 84877787678     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2771     Document Type: Article

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