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Element Six and Harvard University collaboration sets a new quantum information record - Element Six, the world leader in synthetic diamond supermaterials, working in partnership with academics in Harvard University, California Institute of Technology and Max-Planck-Institut fur Quantenoptik, has used its Element Six single crystal synthetic diamond grown by chemical vapor deposition to demonstrate the capability of quantum bit memory to exceed one second at room temperature. Reference: 'Room-Temperature Quantum Bit Memory Exceeding One Second,' Science 8 June 2012: Vol. 336 no. 6086 pp. 1283-1286 DOI: 10.1126/science.1220513