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Flash Physics: Diamonds emit randomly polarized photons, LHCb reveals flawed model, SETI names first fellows

09 May 2017 Sarah Tesh

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Artist's impression of randomly polarized streams of single photons
Random numbers: photons from diamond. (Courtesy: Tohoko University)
Diamond defects create randomly polarized photons The first practical source of a randomly polarized

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