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Symposium Latsis on Diamond Photonics - Physics, Technologies and Applications

Engineering coherent defects in diamond

Nathalie P. de Leon

Published Jan 1, 2019• 0 citations
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Abstract

Recently, there has been intense activity in developing diamond as a quantum platform, driven by the discovery of defects that can be addressed optically and have long spin coherence times, enabling quantum control using optical microscopy. I will describe materials engineering efforts to control and explore these systems.
DOI
10.1364/dp.2019.19

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