Electron Spin

They're working on manipulating electron spin at the University of Southampton. Notable, because they could be used in physical implementation of quantum computers.

GHz Manipulation of Quantum States of Electrons

At UC Santa Barbara they've moved forward in manipulating the state of electrons within diamonds at GHz rates. (UCSB Press release here. Page of UCSB's Center for Spintronics and Quantum Computation here.)

Lead author, Post-Doc Greg Fuchs of UCSB.