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Nature Physics 4, 678 - 679 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nphys1065

Subject Categories: Electronics, photonics and device physics | Condensed-matter physics | Nanotechnology

Coherent population trapping: Quantum optics with dots

Manfred Bayer1

  1. Manfred Bayer is at the Institute of Physics, Dortmund University of Technology, Otto-Hahn-Stras zlige 4, Dortmund, D-44227, Germany.
    e-mail: manfred.bayer@tu-dortmund.de


The ability to optically drive a single electron spin confined to a quantum dot from an absorbing state to a trapped coherent dark state could be the key to realizing optical switches and other quantum optical devices.

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