Diamonds Could Be Best Friend to Quantum Communications (IMAGE)

Princeton University, Engineering School

Diamonds Could Be Best Friend to Quantum Communications

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A Princeton-led research team has created diamonds that contain defects capable of storing and transmitting quantum information for use in a future 'quantum internet.' The defects can take and store quantum information in the form of electrons for relatively long periods of time and link it efficiently to photons.

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Image courtesy of Paul Stevenson, postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University

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