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Can someone ELI5? "Quantum nanodiamond" triggers my woo detector and the nitrogen vacancy is glossed over.
by pgt 6y ago
Can someone ELI5? "Quantum nanodiamond" triggers my woo detector and the nitrogen vacancy is glossed over.
- gus_massa 6y agoThe research article call them "fluorescent nanodiamonds", fluorescence is a quantum effect, so the press article an mix that and get "quantum nanodiamonds" that is more linkbaity. Nitrogen Vacancy is a well known technique (but is far away from my area). If you change a Carbon in the diamond by a Nitrogen, then the Nitrogen will pick an unpaired electron and you can mess with this poor electron with it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen-vacancy_center https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen-vacancy_center