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Nature Materials 5, 255 - 256 (2006)
doi:10.1038/nmat1620

Quantum information: Long live the spin

David Gershoni1

  1. David Gershoni is in the Physics Department and the Solid State Institute, Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel. e-mail: dg@physics.technion.ac.il

The long spin-coherence time of electrons in semiconductor quantum dots has strong potential for quantum information processing. A new study shows a way to further enhance it by controlling the interaction of electrons with light.

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