A collaboration of researchers at Harvard University, Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik and California Institute of Technology has created a nano-engineering controlled CVD growth of synthetic diamonds, which has been used to exhibit longest memory duration, says a new report from the journal Science.

Element Six, the Luxembourg-headquartered manufacturer of synthetic diamond supermaterials, has made a quantum bit to exhibit a more than one second memory at room temperature via chemical vapor deposition (CVD) grown single crystal synthetic diamond.

The quantum information research collaboration study was aimed at discovering a synthetic diamond with only a single impurity i. e. the Nitrogen Vacancy centre. It has been told that the N-V centre uses a green light source to spin polarize at room temperature.

It is being said that Element Six has taken the development to a next level as no other material has the capability of exhibiting this much long memory duration without cryogenic cooling. “Technologically, it should allow experts to implement error-correction schemes similar to those used in dynamic RAM”, says Physicist Dane McCamey.

The findings not only allow for chemical and biological imaging processes in quantum sensor technologies, but also have raised a hope for the introduction of quantum communications in near future.