Sentences with phrase «diamond crystal»

A quantum effect named after an ancient Greek puzzle has been observed in diamond, paving the way for the use of diamond crystals in quantum computer chips.

Their focus over the past two years has been on diamond crystals and an impurity called a nitrogen - vacancy (NV) center, in which optical and spin degrees of freedom are coupled.

Each «bristle» contains a single, solid nanofabricated diamond crystal with a special defect, a nitrogen - vacancy (NV) center, located at the tip.

Single diamond crystals can be 100 times better at thermal conductivity than copper while still acting as an efficient lubricant.

«Thin diamond crystal reflects many colors of light in all directions.»

«An NV center is created when two adjacent carbon atoms in the lattice of a pure diamond crystal are removed from the lattice leaving two gaps, one of which is filled with a nitrogen atom, and one of which remains vacant,» Pines explains.

The technique exploits quantum effects in tiny diamond crystals, or «nanodiamonds», to detect changes down to a few thousandths of a degree.

Seeing red For the latest technique, the researchers used a nanowire to inject diamond crystals into a human embryonic cell.

Washington, DC — The U.S. Patent & Trademark Office has issued a patent to the Carnegie Institution for a method of creating high quality diamond crystals larger than 10 carats.

By causing a defect in pink diamond crystals, Harvard University researcher have created what they're calling the world's smallest radio.

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The slightly misshapen octahedral shape of this rough diamond crystal in matrix is typical of the mineral.

As the diamond crystals form, they can enclose tiny amounts of fluid or rock from their surroundings.

They first put a hydrogen and helium mixture between two diamond crystals, compressing the mixture until it became a liquid.

Theoretically, it's possible that space could be the same from point to point, but still have special directions — much as a diamond crystal has uniform density, but specific directions in which its atoms line up in rows.

A study of tiny mineral «inclusions» within diamonds from Botswana has shown that diamond crystals can take billions of years to grow.

The diamond crystals have an edge length of between three and eight millimeters, and are then separated from the substrate and polished using a laser.

And because the nitrogen's electrons are extremely sensitive to magnetic fields, diamond crystals have also shown promise in magnetic resonance imaging.

But so far, decoherence, a degradation of the delicate states caused by noise in the environment, has prevented researchers from storing more than a few bits of linked quantum information in a diamond crystal at a time.

Now, quantum physicist Oliver Benson and his colleagues at Humboldt University in Berlin have seen the effect in a diamond crystal — a material that would be easier to manufacture on a large scale for quantum computing.

The etching is done in a plasma chamber where the diamond is bombarded by argon and oxygen ions, ripping the carbon atoms out of the diamond crystal.

Importantly, our protocol is robust against an unknown alignment of the diamond crystal, making this a viable protocol for optical polarization of solutions of nanodiamond.

X-ray spectroscopy helped to investigate the diamond crystals collected on the fields in Africa, China, Zaire and Sierra Leone, and to find in them microinclusions ordinary water ice, but in a rare cubic phase of ice VII.