| CPC C01B 32/28 (2017.08) [C09K 11/59 (2013.01); B82Y 20/00 (2013.01); C01P 2006/60 (2013.01)] | 7 Claims |

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1. A composition of matter, comprising:
carbon in a diamond lattice;
a neutral silicon vacancy center (SiV0) in the diamond lattice;
wherein the composition of matter displays a photoluminescence emission peak arising from the neutral silicon vacancy centers around 946 nm; and
wherein a zero phonon line for the neutral silicon vacancy center has a full width half maximum intrinsic inhomogeneous zero phonon line width of no more than 500 MHz over a time scale of at least 1 ms at temperatures below 40 K.
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