{"id":189812,"date":"2024-05-21T03:26:51","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T08:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/scientists-discover-single-atom-defect-in-2d-material-can-hold-quantum-information-at-room-temperature"},"modified":"2024-05-21T03:26:51","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T08:26:51","slug":"scientists-discover-single-atom-defect-in-2d-material-can-hold-quantum-information-at-room-temperature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/scientists-discover-single-atom-defect-in-2d-material-can-hold-quantum-information-at-room-temperature","title":{"rendered":"Scientists discover single atom defect in 2D material can hold quantum information at room temperature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-single-atom-defect-in-2d-material-can-hold-quantum-information-at-room-temperature3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have discovered that a \u201csingle atomic defect\u201d in a layered 2D material can hold onto quantum information for microseconds at room temperature, underscoring the potential of 2D materials in advancing quantum technologies.<\/p>\n<p>The defect, found by researchers from the Universities of Manchester and Cambridge using a thin material called <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/hexagonal+boron+nitride\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">hexagonal boron nitride<\/a> (hBN), demonstrates spin coherence\u2014a property where an electronic spin can retain <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+information\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum information <\/a>\u2014under ambient conditions. They also found that these spins can be controlled with light.<\/p>\n<p>Up until now, only a few <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/solid-state+materials\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">solid-state materials<\/a> have been able to do this, marking a significant step forward in quantum technologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have discovered that a \u201csingle atomic defect\u201d in a layered 2D material can hold onto quantum information for microseconds at room temperature, underscoring the potential of 2D materials in advancing quantum technologies. The defect, found by researchers from the Universities of Manchester and Cambridge using a thin material called hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), demonstrates [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189812","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}