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View SchemaUltralong coherence times in the purely electronic zero-phonon line emission of single molecules
| Authors | Alper Kiraz, Moritz Ehrl, Christoph Bräuchle, Andreas Zumbusch |
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| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0406138 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0406138 |
| DOI | 10.1063/1.1779351 |
Abstract
We report the observation of ultralong coherence times in the purely electronic zero-phonon line emission of single terrylenediimide molecules at 1.4 K. Vibronic excitation and spectrally resolved detection with a scanning Fabry-Perot spectrum analyzer were used to measure a linewidth of 65 MHz. This is within a factor of 1.6 of the transform limit. It therefore indicates that single molecule emission may be suited for applications in linear optics quantum computation. Additionally it is shown that high resolution spectra taken with the spectrum analyzer allow for the investigation of fast spectral dynamics in the emission of a single molecule.
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