Nature Communications (Dec 2019)

Stabilization of point-defect spin qubits by quantum wells

  • Viktor Ivády,
  • Joel Davidsson,
  • Nazar Delegan,
  • Abram L. Falk,
  • Paul V. Klimov,
  • Samuel J. Whiteley,
  • Stephan O. Hruszkewycz,
  • Martin V. Holt,
  • F. Joseph Heremans,
  • Nguyen Tien Son,
  • David D. Awschalom,
  • Igor A. Abrikosov,
  • Adam Gali

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13495-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Certain point defects in crystals can be used as optically addressable quantum bits, much like atoms trapped in vacuum. Ivády et al. show that embedding such artificial atoms in stacking faults can actually improve their optical properties, making them function even more like true atoms.