Rare Earth-Doped Crystals for Quantum Information Processing

Handbook on the Physics and Chemistry of Rare Earths

Volumn 46, Issue , 2015, Pages 1-78

  Goldner, Philippe ^a   Ferrier, Alban ^a,b   Guillot Noël, Olivier ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Coherence; Hyperfine levels; Photon echo; Quantum information processing; Single crystals; Spectral hole burning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84918828324     PISSN: 01681273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-63260-9.00267-4     Document Type: Chapter

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