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Quantum physics: Flawed to perfection

Ultra-pure synthetic diamonds offer advances in fields from quantum computing to cancer diagnostics.

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Gibney, E. Quantum physics: Flawed to perfection. Nature 505, 472–474 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/505472a

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