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Silicon carbide's quantum aspects

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An engineered defect in silicon carbide that acts as an artificial molecule is found to be the brightest room-temperature source of single photons presently available in a bulk material. This finding suggests that silicon carbide has a promising future for applications in quantum information processing.

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Figure 1: Illustration of the atomic structure of SiC with the wavefunction of the C-antisite vacancy pairs.

BRETT JOHNSON & STEFANIA CASTELLETTO

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  1. Alberto Boretti is at the School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University, Plenty Road, Bundoora, Victoria 3083, Australia,

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