Color Center MOC

Curated map of Zoo entries in the Color Center family.

Entries

Entry	Type	Status
nv-center-qubit	qubit	demonstrated

Composition

• qubit: 1

Conceptual anchors

• divincenzo-criteria explains why NV centers remain the benchmark defect-spin platform: they combine optical initialization/readout with a credible stationary-to-flying qubit story, even though their local two-qubit scaling is weaker than leading processor-first platforms.
• coherence-time-hierarchy is the right comparison lens here, because NV centers pair room-temperature electron-spin control with much longer-lived nearby nuclear-spin memory.

Family structure

• nv-center-qubit should remain the anchor note for the classic color-center story: robust room-temperature control, mature sensing, and early quantum-network demonstrations.
• The colder, networking-first defect platforms with stronger optical interfaces belong in spin-photon-moc, not in the legacy color-center bucket.