TY - JOUR T1 - Quantum information processing using localized ensembles of nuclear spins Y1 - 2004 A1 - J. M. Taylor A1 - G. Giedke A1 - H. Christ A1 - B. Paredes A1 - J. I. Cirac A1 - P. Zoller A1 - M. D. Lukin A1 - A. Imamoglu AB - We describe a technique for quantum information processing based on localized en sembles of nuclear spins. A qubit is identified as the presence or absence of a collective excitation of a mesoscopic ensemble of nuclear spins surrounding a single quantum dot. All single and two-qubit operations can be effected using hyperfine interactions and single-electron spin rotations, hence the proposed scheme avoids gate errors arising from entanglement between spin and orbital degrees of freedom. Ultra-long coherence times of nuclear spins suggest that this scheme could be particularly well suited for applications where long lived memory is essential. UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0407640v2 ER -