Control of the spin geometric phase in semiconductor quantum rings

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Nagasawa, Fumiya ^a   Frustaglia, Diego ^b   Saarikoski, Henri ^c   Richter, Klaus ^c   Nitta, Junsaku ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUANTUM DOT;

ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MAGNETIC FIELD; PERTURBATION; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SIMULATION;

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; CONDUCTANCE; CONTROL SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEOMETRY; MAGNETIC FIELD; OSCILLATION; SEMICONDUCTOR;

EID: 84885142967     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3526     Document Type: Article

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