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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim (CLEO-PR)

Connecting photons to spins

Jörg Schmiedmayer

Published Jun 1, 2013• 0 citations
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Abstract

I will discuss three examples of connecting optical and micro wave photons to spins as quantum memory and compare their advantages and disadvantages for implementations in quantum information devices.
DOI
10.1109/cleopr.2013.6599938

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