Editor’s note: The study described in this article was retracted in the Jan. 9, 2015 Science. IBM physicist Daniel Rugar says that when he and his team attempted to replicate the experiment, they realized that the signal for a particular atom in the diamond, carbon-13, could be mistaken for that of a proton.
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