Ultrafast optical control of individual quantum dot spin qubits

Reports on Progress in Physics

Volumn 76, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Greve, Kristiaan De ^a,c   Press, David ^a,d   McMahon, Peter L ^a   Yamamoto, Yoshihisa ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS   (Japan)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Accretive Health   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUANTUM DOT;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING; THEORETICAL MODEL; REVIEW;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHOTONS; QUANTUM DOTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 84884559825     PISSN: 00344885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0034-4885/76/9/092501     Document Type: Article

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