Deterministic electrical charge-state initialization of single nitrogen-vacancy center in diamond

Physical Review X

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Doi, Y ^a   Makino, T ^b,c   Kato, H ^b,c   Takeuchi, D ^b,c   Ogura, M ^b,c   Okushi, H ^b,c   Morishita, H ^a,c   Tashima, T ^a   Miwa, S ^a   Yamasaki, S ^b,c   Neumann, P ^d   Wrachtrup, J ^d   Suzuki, Y ^a,c   Mizuochi, N ^a,b,c  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Nanophysics; Semiconductor physics

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; DEFECTS; ELECTRIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

AMBIENT CONDITIONS; ELECTRICAL MANIPULATION; NANOPHYSICS; NITROGEN-VACANCY CENTER; P-I-N DIODE STRUCTURES; SEMICONDUCTOR PHYSICS; SINGLE-SHOT READOUT; TIME RESOLVED MEASUREMENT;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 84900304728     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21603308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.4.011057     Document Type: Article

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