Engineering electronic structure to prolong relaxation times in molecular qubits by minimising orbital angular momentum

Molecular spin qubits show great promise for quantum information processing, but loss of phase information due to noise interference hinders their applicability. Here the authors engineer the electronic configurations of the metal centres in a series of divalent rare-earth complexes and succeed in p...

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Main Authors: Ana-Maria Ariciu, David H. Woen, Daniel N. Huh, Lydia E. Nodaraki, Andreas K. Kostopoulos, Conrad A. P. Goodwin, Nicholas F. Chilton, Eric J. L. McInnes, Richard E. P. Winpenny, William J. Evans, Floriana Tuna
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2019-07-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11309-3