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Scientists drill into White Graphene to Create Artificial Atoms

Laser light (green arrow) generates low-level light emitted from a single photon (purple arrow) at the edges of holes in white graphene atop a glass slide.
Credit: Illustration by Joshua Ziegler

Patterned on a microchip and working in ambient conditions, the atoms could lead to rapid advancements in new quantum-based technology. By drilling holes into a thin two-dimensional sheet of hexagonal boron nitride with a gallium-focused ion beam, University of Oregon scientists have created artificial atoms that generate single photons.

The artificial atoms – which work in air and at room temperature – may be a big step in efforts to develop all-optical quantum computing, said UO physicist Benjamín J. Alemán, principal investigator of a study published in the journal Nano Letters.

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