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MRS Proceedings

Color Centers in Diamond as Practical Single-Photon Source to Illustrate Quantum Complementarity

V. Jacques, Steven Regnnie, Dominique Chauvat, Jean-François Roch

Published Jan 1, 2006• 0 citations
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DOI
10.1557/proc-0956-j02-01

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