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Close-up on spin coherence

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Ultrafast, coherent spin dynamics in semiconductor heterostructures can be measured with a scanning tunnelling microscope by using femtosecond pulses of circularly polarized light.

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Figure 1: Spin-sensitive pump–probe spectroscopy in the scanning tunnelling microscope.

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  1. Sebastian Loth, Jacob A. J. Burgess and Shichao Yan are at the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, 22761 Hamburg, Germany, and the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany,

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Loth, S., Burgess, J. & Yan, S. Close-up on spin coherence. Nature Nanotech 9, 574–575 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2014.164

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