Progress in quantum computing: Researchers control rate of photon emission from luminescent imperfections in diamond
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 - 16:30
in Physics & Chemistry
Engineers and physicists at Harvard have managed to capture light in tiny diamond pillars embedded in silver, releasing a stream of single photons at a controllable rate. The advance represents a milestone on the road to quantum networks in which information can be encoded in spins of electrons and carried through a network via light, one photon at a time.