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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

Manipulating decoherence of a single solid-state spin by quantum control of its spin bath environment

G. de Lange, Toeno van der Sar, Machiel Blok, Zhihui Wang, V. V. Dobrovitski, Ronald Hanson

Published Mar 23, 2011• 0 citations
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