UTS Scientists find diamond in the rough

Unthinkably fast computing, colossal data storage capabilities, completely secure online communication and limitless connectivity. All these things could now be just a few short years away.

Breakthrough research in the burgeoning field of quantum electronics has catapulted two UTS Physics academics into the pages of Nature Communications journal.

Alongside a team of scientists from Harvard University and the University of Iowa in the United States, UTS Physics ARC DECRA Fellow Dr Igor Aharonovich and UTS PhD candidate Toby Shanley discovered a new approach to incorporate lanthanides, or rare earth ions, into a diamond crystal.

An innovative and increasingly important aspect of nanotechnology, quantum computing, involves writing, storing and readout of huge quantities of data in what are referred to as the 'spin states' of electrons – the angular momentum inherent to each electron.

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