June 28, 2011

Diamonds Have Quantum Memory

University of California-Santa Barbara, University of California-Santa Barbara


UC-Santa Barbara

Physicists working at the University of California, Santa Barbara and the University of Konstanz in Germany have developed a breakthrough in the use of diamond in quantum physics, marking an important step toward quantum computing. The results are reported in this week's online edition of Nature Physics.

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TAGGED: quantum mechanics, solid-state physics, quantum computing, diamond

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