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Nature Physics 5, 173 - 174 (2009)
doi:10.1038/nphys1215

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

Quantum dots: Driven to perfection

Charles Santori1 & Yoshihisa Yamamoto2

  1. Charles Santori is in the Information and Quantum Systems Laboratory (IQSL), Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, 1501 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto, California 94304, USA.
    e-mail: charles.santori@hp.com
  2. Yoshihisa Yamamoto is in the E. L. Ginzton Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-4088, USA.
    e-mail: yyamamoto@stanford.edu


In many ways, semiconductor quantum dots behave like natural atoms, but it has proved difficult to manipulate them using resonant laser light. That problem is now overcome.

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