{"id":122663,"date":"2021-05-17T14:25:45","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T21:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/future-sparkles-for-diamond-based-quantum-technology"},"modified":"2021-05-17T14:25:45","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T21:25:45","slug":"future-sparkles-for-diamond-based-quantum-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/future-sparkles-for-diamond-based-quantum-technology","title":{"rendered":"Future sparkles for diamond-based quantum technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/future-sparkles-for-diamond-based-quantum-technology.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Marilyn Monroe famously sang that diamonds are a girl\u2019s best friend, but they are also very popular with quantum scientists\u2014with two new research breakthroughs poised to accelerate the development of synthetic diamond-based quantum technology, improve scalability, and dramatically reduce manufacturing costs.<\/p>\n<p>While silicon is traditionally used for computer and mobile phone hardware, diamond has unique properties that make it particularly useful as a base for emerging quantum technologies such as quantum supercomputers, secure communications and sensors.<\/p>\n<p>However there are two key problems; cost, and difficulty in fabricating the single crystal diamond layer, which is smaller than one millionth of a meter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marilyn Monroe famously sang that diamonds are a girl\u2019s best friend, but they are also very popular with quantum scientists\u2014with two new research breakthroughs poised to accelerate the development of synthetic diamond-based quantum technology, improve scalability, and dramatically reduce manufacturing costs. While silicon is traditionally used for computer and mobile phone hardware, diamond has unique [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,1617,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-quantum-physics","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}