Clarice Aiello: Finding quantum gold in diamond’s defect
The kind of diamond nuclear science and engineering PhD candidate Clarice Aiello values does not come in a dazzling pear or square cut, swaddled in black velvet on a counter at Tiffany’s. Instead, it exists as a millimeter-sized chunk on a sturdy table in a lab she built.
What’s more, Aiello is not searching for perfection in her rock, but imperfection of a remarkable kind: a naturally occurring defect in the diamond’s lattice that, if manipulated properly, gives rise to quantum phenomena.
Learn more about Aiello and her work: http://web.mit.edu/nse/news/spotlights/2012/aiello.html
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