Nuclear spins keep coming back

Ribeiro, Hugo; Burkard, Guido

doi:10.1038/nmat3671

Nuclear spins keep coming back

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Published: 22 May 2013

Volume 12, pages 469–471, (2013)
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Hugo Ribeiro¹ &
Guido Burkard¹

Semiconducting quantum dots have been extensively investigated with the idea of using single spins for quantum computing. Whereas access to single electrons and their spins has become routine, the challenges posed by nuclear spins remain ever present.

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**Figure 1: Spin and charge at play between neighbouring quantum dots.**

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Hugo Ribeiro and Guido Burkard are at the Department of Physics, and the Department of Physics, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 82 CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland, University of Konstanz, D-78457 Konstanz, Germany,
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