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Nitrogen-vacancy centres in diamond are very promising candidates for quantum information processing in the solid state. However, a search to find defects with even more potential has now been launched.

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Figure 1: Atomic structure and ground-state orbital of a charged NV centre in the 4H polytope of SiC.
Figure 2: Energy surfaces of ground- and excited-state manifolds of the singly charged NV centres in diamond and in 4H–SiC.

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DiVincenzo, D. Better than excellent. Nature Mater 9, 468–469 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat2774

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