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THE COHERENT OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPY AND CONTROL OF AN ELECTRON SPIN IN A SELF-ASSEMBLED QUANTUM DOT FOR QUANTUM COMPUTING (2009)
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@MISC{Kim09thecoherent,
author = {Erik D. Kim},
title = {THE COHERENT OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPY AND CONTROL OF AN ELECTRON SPIN IN A SELF-ASSEMBLED QUANTUM DOT FOR QUANTUM COMPUTING},
year = {2009}
}
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Abstract
A few years ago I didn’t think this thesis would be written. Having gone through a nearly year and a half span of failed experiments, I was beginning to consider other possible career options. I believe that God, by both ordinary and extraordinary means, provided the inspiration and the guidance I needed to stay the course, bringing me to eventual (and undeserved) success in the laboratory. Such inspiration and guidance has come through family members, colleagues and friends, as well as through moments such as those of Saturday, March 31, 2007 when, at around 3am, I was strangely motivated to repeat a failed set of scans despite being almost out of liquid helium, discouraged by what seemed to be another day of failure, and exhausted from having woken up early for the previous day’s 8 am group meeting. That moment would turn out to produce the first significant step of progress in lab, and, thankfully, it wouldn’t be the last.
