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Nature Physics 2, 807 - 808 (2006)
doi:10.1038/nphys467

Subject Categories: Quantum physics | Optical physics | Condensed-matter physics

Spin qubits: Connect the dots

Guido Burkard1

  1. Guido Burkard is in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 82, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland. e-mail: guido.burkard@unibas.ch


Electron spins confined within quantum dots are potential qubits for quantum information processing. But how to couple the dots? Optical probing of spherical structures that contain two concentric coupled quantum dots leads the way.

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