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  Synopsis: Exciting Vibrations Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2016-04-07 16:16 -0500
    Re: Synopsis: Exciting Vibrations jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2016-04-07 22:45 +0000

#568706 — Synopsis: Exciting Vibrations

Synopsis: Exciting Vibrations
> http://physics.aps.org/synopsis-for/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.143602
> http://d22izw7byeupn1.cloudfront.net/journals/PHYSICS/synopses/images/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.143602


> Shine a laser on a nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center—an atomic defect in a
> piece of diamond consisting of a vacancy (V) next to a nitrogen (N)
> impurity—and its unpaired electrons jump into an excited state.
> Andrew Golter and Thein Oo from the University of Oregon, Eugene, and
> colleagues have shown that these electrons can also be excited using
> mechanical waves. In this case, the energy of the jump experienced by
> the electrons can be controlled by tuning the frequency of the
> mechanical waves as well as that of the incident laser. The authors
> suggest that mechanical vibrations could be an effective way to
> control the quantum energy state of electrons in chip-based networks
> of qubits.

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Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> Synopsis: Exciting Vibrations

Been shopping on that web store again?

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