July Lecture: Light and colour in diamond - new technology from captured atoms
Fri 4 Jul 08 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: Elizabeth Murdoch Theatre A (adjacent to the School of Physics)
Presented by Professor David Jamieson, School of Physics, University of Melbourne
LECTURES ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
Diamond is normally crystal clear. But the introduction of foreign atoms leads to a range of brilliant colours. Remarkably, it is possible to detect light emitted from single atoms embedded in diamond and the colour of this light is exquisitely sensitive to fundamental quantum mechanical properties of nearby atoms in the diamond crystal lattice. This could lead to new quantum mechanical technologies for communication and sensing in devices that use single quanta as their operating components.
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