Tag: Area B

As we may remember from school, an atom consists of a nucleus and a certain amount of electrons in the atomic shell. Similar to marbles running down the marble run or apples falling from trees, these electrons strive for lowering their potential energy.

If you read the term ‚color center’, you may not necessarily think of quantum physics. Color centers are tiny defects in an otherwise perfectly built crystal. What at first sounds like a disadvantage is in fact a highly promising pathway for modern quantum technologies.