Quantum information: Blockade at a different level

Guido Burkard

Nature Nanotechnology 7, 617 (2012). doi:10.1038/nnano.2012.174

Author: Guido Burkard

Valley degeneracy in carbon nanostructures can be detrimental to electron spin control and readout based on spin blockade. As a way around this problem, it is now shown how to use a combined valley–spin blockade instead.

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