{"id":31630,"date":"2016-11-02T19:50:15","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T02:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/new-technique-for-creating-nv-doped-nanodiamonds-may-be-boost-for-quantum-computing"},"modified":"2017-04-24T19:25:07","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T02:25:07","slug":"new-technique-for-creating-nv-doped-nanodiamonds-may-be-boost-for-quantum-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/new-technique-for-creating-nv-doped-nanodiamonds-may-be-boost-for-quantum-computing","title":{"rendered":"New technique for creating NV-doped nanodiamonds may be boost for quantum computing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-technique-for-creating-nv-doped-nanodiamonds-may-be-boost-for-quantum-computing.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a new technique for creating NV-doped single-crystal nanodiamonds, only four to eight nanometers wide, which could serve as components in room-temperature quantum computing technologies. These doped nanodiamonds also hold promise for use in single-photon sensors and nontoxic, fluorescent biomarkers.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, computers use binary logic, in which each binary unit \u2014 or bit \u2014 is in one of two states: 1 or 0. Quantum computing makes use of superposition and entanglement, allowing the creation of quantum bits \u2014 or qubits \u2014 which can have a vast number of possible states. Quantum computing has the potential to significantly increase computing power and speed.<\/p>\n<p>A number of options have been explored for creating quantum computing systems, including the use of diamonds that have \u201cnitrogen-vacancy\u201d centers. That\u2019s where this research comes in.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2016-11-technique-nv-doped-nanodiamonds-boost-quantum.html\">http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2016&#45;11-technique-nv-doped-nanodiam...antum.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a new technique for creating NV-doped single-crystal nanodiamonds, only four to eight nanometers wide, which could serve as components in room-temperature quantum computing technologies. These doped nanodiamonds also hold promise for use in single-photon sensors and nontoxic, fluorescent biomarkers. Currently, computers use binary logic, in which each [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,4,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-nanotechnology","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31630","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31630"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49648,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31630\/revisions\/49648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}