Nuclear spin effects in semiconductor quantum dots

Nature Materials

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 494-504

  Chekhovich, E A ^a   Makhonin, M N ^a   Tartakovskii, A I ^a   Yacoby, A ^b   Bluhm, H ^c,d   Nowack, K C ^e,f   Vandersypen, L M K ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d JARA Fundamentals of Future Information Technologies   (Germany)

^e DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^f STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED MANIPULATIONS; DYNAMIC NUCLEAR POLARIZATION; EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES; INDEPENDENT CONTROL; NUCLEAR ENVIRONMENTS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE TECHNIQUES; QUANTUM INFORMATION SCIENCE; TRANSPORT EXPERIMENTS;

QUANTUM COMPUTERS; QUANTUM OPTICS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

SPIN DYNAMICS;

EID: 84878221328     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3652     Document Type: Review

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