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The right ambience for a single spin

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Long-lived single electron spins are crucial for quantum computation and for understanding spin dynamics. A remarkably long lifetime — of the order of minutes — has now been obtained for a solid-state system. See Letter p.242

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Figure 1: Energy-level structure of spin systems.

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  1. Michael E. Flatté is in the Optical Science and Technology Center and the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA.,

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