Most people might tend to think of diamonds as high-end adornments. UC Santa Barbara physicist Ania Bleszynski Jayich thinks of the diamonds she grows in the UC Quantum Foundry, which she co-directs, as the potentially powerful source driving quantum sensors.
In the laboratory of UC Santa Barbara materials scientist Stephen Wilson, researchers are investigating the physics behind unusual states of matter while designing materials that could support properties useful for future quantum technologies.
In a series of three papers co-authored with Jayich — one published in PRX in March and the second and third in Nature in October — Hughes demonstrates, for the first time, how not just individual qubits but two-dimensional ensembles of many defects can be arranged and entangled within diamond.
With a pair of published papers, materials engineers at Stanford University debut a promising approach to using a well-studied semiconductor to improve infrared light-emitting diodes and sensors.
Panelists gather for “Building California’s Quantum Workforce: CIQC,” featuring leaders from UC Berkeley, UCLA, UC Santa Barbara, and California State University San Marcos. Photo by Brandon Sánchez Mejia.
