A valley-spin qubit in a carbon nanotube

Nature Nanotechnology

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 565-568

  Laird, E A ^a,b   Pei, F ^a   Kouwenhoven, L P ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBES; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROSPINNING; III-V SEMICONDUCTORS; NANOCRYSTALS; QUANTUM OPTICS; QUBITS; SPIN DYNAMICS; YARN;

COHERENCE TIME; COHERENT MANIPULATION; DOUBLE QUANTUM DOTS; ELECTRICAL NOISE; GROUP-IV SEMICONDUCTORS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; QUBIT ROTATIONS; SPIN ORBIT INTERACTIONS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

CARBON NANOTUBE; QUANTUM DOT;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMICONDUCTOR;

EID: 84881372316     PISSN: 17483387     EISSN: 17483395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2013.140     Document Type: Article

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