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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC)

Defects in diamond: Bright light for the quantum world

Jörg Wrachtrup

Published May 1, 2011• 0 citations
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Abstract

The talk will highlight recent achievements in solid state quantum optics and spin physics with diamond, which may also have important spin off to other areas like e.g. biophysics.
DOI
10.1109/cleoe.2011.5943389

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