To act as nodes in quantum networks, solid-state quantum dots must combine their high performance as quantum emitters with a quantum memory. Now, nuclear spins around a gallium arsenide quantum dot have been used as a many-body quantum memory register.
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Fig. 1: Quantum state transfer between a central electron spin and its nuclear spin bath.
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Lei, X., Zhai, L. A central spin coordinates a nuclear crowd. Nat. Phys. (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-025-02790-3
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