Engineering coherent interactions in molecular nanomagnet dimers

A Ardavan, AM Bowen, A Fernandez… - npj Quantum …, 2015 - nature.com
Proposals for systems embodying condensed matter spin qubits cover a very wide range of
length scales, from atomic defects in semiconductors all the way to micron-sized …

Making hybrid [n]-rotaxanes as supramolecular arrays of molecular electron spin qubits

A Fernandez, J Ferrando-Soria, EM Pineda… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Quantum information processing (QIP) would require that the individual units involved—
qubits—communicate to other qubits while retaining their identity. In many ways this …

Enhancing Fullerene‐Based Solar Cell Lifetimes by Addition of a Fullerene Dumbbell

BC Schroeder, Z Li, MA Brady, GC Faria… - Angewandte …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Cost‐effective, solution‐processable organic photovoltaics (OPV) present an interesting
alternative to inorganic silicon‐based solar cells. However, one of the major remaining …

Molecules as electron spin qubits

S Sproules - 2016 - books.rsc.org
Electron spins confined to molecular compounds are promising candidates to base the
elementary unit of a quantum computer: the qubit. The major advantage of molecular spin …

Distributed Polarizability Model for Covalently Bonded Fullerene Nanoaggregates: Origins of Polarizability Exaltation

DS Sabirov, AA Tukhbatullina - Nanomaterials, 2022 - mdpi.com
Polarizability exaltation is typical for (C60) n nanostructures. It relates to the ratio between
the mean polarizabilities of (C60) n and C60: the first one is higher than the n-fold mean …

M@C50 as Higher Intermediates towards Large Endohedral Metallofullerenes: Theoretical Characterization, Aromatic and Bonding Properties from Relativistic DFT …

A Miralrio, A Muñoz-Castro, RB King… - The Journal of …, 2018 - ACS Publications
In recent years, endohedral metallofullerenes involving the C50 cages have been observed
experimentally to encapsulate several metal atoms. This is the last step in a bottom-up …

Spin quantum computing with endohedral fullerenes

W Harneit - Endohedral Fullerenes: Electron Transfer and Spin, 2017 - Springer
This chapter reviews the present state of the art in using the endohedral fullerenes N@ C 60
and P@ C 60 as qubits in a spin quantum computer. After a brief introduction to spin …

Probing the dipolar coupling in a heterospin endohedral fullerene–phthalocyanine dyad

S Zhou, M Yamamoto, GAD Briggs… - Journal of the …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Paramagnetic endohedral fullerenes and phthalocyanine (Pc) complexes are promising
building blocks for molecular quantum information processing, for which tunable dipolar …

Construction of a short metallofullerene-peapod with a spin probe

C Zhao, H Meng, M Nie, Q Huang, P Du… - Chemical …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
A short metallofullere-peapod of Y2@ C79N⊂[4] CHBC was constructed. The strong
confinement effect from the large π-extended [4] CHBC nanoring induces molecular …

Close Encounters of the Weak Kind: Investigations of Electron–Electron Interactions between Dissimilar Spins in Hybrid Rotaxanes

SJ Lockyer, AJ Fielding, GFS Whitehead… - Journal of the …, 2019 - ACS Publications
We report a family of hybrid [2] rotaxanes based on inorganic [Cr7NiF8 (O2C t Bu)
16]−(“{Cr7Ni}”) rings templated about organic threads that are terminated at one end with …