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Nature Physics 2, 365 - 366 (2006)
doi:10.1038/nphys330

Subject Categories: Atomic and molecular physics | Information theory and computation | Quantum physics

Quantum computing: Diamond wedding for spin couple

John J. L. Morton1

  1. John J. L. Morton is in the Clarendon Laboratory and the Department of Materials, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3PH, UK. e-mail: john.morton@sjc.ox.ac.uk


Observing coherent coupling between two quantum objects in the solid state is hard enough at millikelvin temperatures. Now, this has been achieved at room temperature — using nitrogen defects in diamond — opening up an avenue to practical quantum computing.

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