Diamonds: A Researcher’s Best Friend

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Quantum Communication at UC Santa Barbara

Diamonds: A Researcher’s Best Friend

Just last week, a UC Santa Barbara press release stated that two government funding agencies are putting $6.1 million into two research projects aimed at utilizing diamonds for quantum communication processing.

Sound intense?

UCSB is leading both research projects because of its advances in quantum physics at the university over the past decade.

The funding will go to a research collaboration involving multiple organizations such as: CNSI (California NanoSystems Institute), Hewlett-Packard Research labs, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and more.
The projects will focus on creating new quantum measurement techniques regarding single electron spins in diamonds.
The research will complement many other ongoing research initiatives around the world involving diamonds.

The emerging field of quantum information has the ability to lead to advances in the ability to provide secure quantum communication across continents.

CNSI at UCSB hopes to develop technologies that will dominate science and the economy in the 21st century.

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