Levitating Nanodiamond Research
Channel: Purdue Engineering
Date: 19/07/2016

Researchers have demonstrated how to control the “electron spin” of a nanodiamond while it is levitated with lasers in a vacuum, an advance that could find applications in quantum information processing, sensors and studies into the fundamental physics of quantum mechanics. 

Read the full story here:  http://bit.ly/nanodiamond-purdue

Learn more about Tongcang Li's lab: https://sites.google.com/site/litongcang 

Related article: T. M. Hoang, J. Ahn, J. Bang, T. Li. "Electron spin control of optically levitated nanodiamonds in vacuum", Nature Communications, 7, 12250 (2016). DOI: 10.1038/ncomms12250


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