Early this month Henry received the Hamermesh award to the best undergraduate experimentalist in physics. Last year he was named a Levine Rising Junior and more recently he was admitted to the UCLA physics graduate program; he will be moving to LA early this fall. We will miss you, Henry!

Dr. Harishankar Jayakumar is among the CCNY nominees to the regional Blavatnik award for young scientists for his work on the control of trapped charge in diamond. Congratulations Hari!!

The Blavatnik Regional Awards acknowledge and celebrate the excellence of outstanding postdoctoral scientists from institutions in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. More information about the award can be found here.

After working with our group as a CCNY physics undergraduate, Henry has been admitted to graduate school in UCLA. Congratulations Henry! Way to go!

Nabeel Aslam joins us from the pi3 group at the University of Stuttgart where he works under the supervision of Prof. J. Wrachtrup. His work focuses on the physics and applications of nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond. He will be staying with us during two months. We are happy to have you here, Nabeel!

Science blogs around the world echo our Science Advances paper on NV charge control. Below is an example from Israel.

To view the Nature Reviews article, click here.

A major barrier in the development of large-scale quantum information processing in diamond is the connection of nitrogen-vacancy spin registers. Given that diamond is expected to be an ideal spin transport material, the coherent transport of spin directly between the spin registers offers a potential solution. Yet, there has been no demonstration of spin transport in diamond due to difficulties in achieving spin injection and detection via conventional methods. This article exploits detailed knowledge of the paramagnetic defects in diamond to identify novel mechanisms to photo-ionize, transport, and capture spin-polarized electrons in diamond at room temperature. In particular,  we explore how these mechanisms may be combined to realize an on-chip spin quantum bus at room temperature.

Click here to see coverage by the New York Times.