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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

Coherent spin manipulation of a single NV center in its orbital excited state

Gregory D. Fuchs, D.M. Toyli, F. Joseph Heremans, D. D. Awschalom, V. V. Dobrovitski, Christoph D. Weis, Thomas Schenkel

Published Mar 16, 2010• 0 citations
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