Single-molecule electron spin resonance by means of atomic force microscopy.


Journal

Nature
ISSN: 1476-4687
Titre abrégé: Nature
Pays: England
ID NLM: 0410462

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
Dec 2023
Historique:
received: 09 09 2022
accepted: 17 10 2023
medline: 11 12 2023
pubmed: 7 12 2023
entrez: 6 12 2023
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Understanding and controlling decoherence in open quantum systems is of fundamental interest in science, whereas achieving long coherence times is critical for quantum information processing

Identifiants

pubmed: 38057570
doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06754-6
pii: 10.1038/s41586-023-06754-6
pmc: PMC10700134
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

64-68

Informations de copyright

© 2023. The Author(s).

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Auteurs

Lisanne Sellies (L)

Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany. lisanne.sellies@ur.de.

Raffael Spachtholz (R)

Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.

Sonja Bleher (S)

Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.

Jakob Eckrich (J)

Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.

Philipp Scheuerer (P)

Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany.

Jascha Repp (J)

Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany. jascha.repp@ur.de.

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