Optically addressable nuclear spins in a solid with a six-hour coherence time

Nature

Volumn 517, Issue 7533, 2015, Pages 177-180

  Zhong, Manjin ^a   Hedges, Morgan P ^a,b   Ahlefeldt, Rose L ^a,c   Bartholomew, John G ^a   Beavan, Sarah E ^a,d   Wittig, Sven M ^a,e   Longdell, Jevon J ^f   Sellars, Matthew J ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LABORATOIRE AIMÉ COTTON   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^e OHB SYSTEM AG   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EUROPIUM; GLASS FIBER;

ABSORPTION; EUROPIUM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; OPTICAL METHOD; ORTHOSILICATE; QUANTUM MECHANICS; YTTRIUM;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DECOHERENCE RATE; INVESTIGATIVE PROCEDURES; LIGHT SCATTERING; MAGNETIC FIELD; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT; NUCLEAR SPIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SOLID;

EID: 84923070419     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature14025     Document Type: Article

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