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Quantum-dot spins

Happier for longer

Semiconductor quantum dots have good prospects as a platform for implementing a quantum information processor. A demonstration that in such nanostructures quantum information can survive for fractions of a millisecond only adds to this promise.

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Bayer, M. Happier for longer. Nature Phys 7, 103–104 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys1922

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