Robust coherent spin centers from stable azafullerene radicals entrapped in cycloparaphenylene rings

Y Tanuma, A Stergiou, AB Bobnar, M Gaboardi, J Rio… - Nanoscale, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Molecular entities with robust spin-1/2 are natural two-level quantum systems for realizing
qubits and are key ingredients of emerging quantum technologies such as quantum …

Long Spin Coherence Times on C59NC60 Heterodimer Radicals Entrapped in Cycloparaphenylene Rings

Y Tanuma, T Knaflič, B Anézo, C Stangel… - The Journal of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
We investigate the effect of introducing C60 to (C59N) 2 and the molecular ring,[10]
cycloparaphenylene ([10] CPP), using electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) …

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 …

Quantum-information-processing architecture with endohedral fullerenes in a carbon nanotube

WL Yang, ZY Xu, H Wei, M Feng, D Suter - Physical Review A—Atomic …, 2010 - APS
A potential quantum-information processor is proposed using an array of the endohedral
fullerenes N 15@ C 60 or P 31@ C 60 contained in a single walled carbon nanotube …

Stability of C60 and N@ C60 under thermal and optical exposure

M Eckardt, R Wieczorek, W Harneit - Carbon, 2015 - Elsevier
N@ C 60, a nitrogen atom encapsulated in a fullerene shell, has an electron-nuclear spin
system with outstanding coherence properties attractive for quantum computation. The …

Alignment of N@C60 Derivatives in a Liquid Crystal Matrix

G Liu, MC Gimenez-Lopez, M Jevric… - The Journal of …, 2013 - ACS Publications
The orientation of different N-substituted [N@ C60] fulleropyrrolidine derivatives hosted in a
nematic liquid crystal matrix has been studied by electron spin resonance spectroscopy. In …

Endohedral copper (II) acetylacetonate/single-walled carbon nanotube hybrids characterized by electron paramagnetic resonance

S Cambré, W Wenseleers… - The Journal of Physical …, 2009 - ACS Publications
The encapsulation of an organometallic paramagnetic molecule, copper (II) acetylacetonate
(Cu (acac) 2), inside single-walled carbon nanotubes (SW CNTs) is studied using …

Strong Interplay between the Electron Spin Lifetime in Chemically Synthesized Graphene Multilayers and Surface‐Bound Oxygen

B Náfrádi, M Choucair, PD Southon… - … A European Journal, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The electron spin lifetime in an assembly of chemically synthesized graphene sheets was
found to be extremely sensitive to oxygen. Introducing small concentrations of physisorbed …

Cyan titania nanowires: spectroscopic study of the origin of the self-doping enhanced photocatalytic activity

P Szirmai, B Náfrádi, A Arakcheeva, E Szilágyi, R Gaál… - Catalysis Today, 2017 - Elsevier
We report a detailed spectroscopic study of Ti 3+ self-doped TiO 2 nanowires prepared by
high temperature annealing of the protonated titanate nanowires (TiONW) in hydrogen …

Spin relaxation times of single-wall carbon nanotubes

WD Rice, RT Weber, P Nikolaev, S Arepalli… - Physical Review B …, 2013 - APS
We have measured temperature (T)-and power-dependent electron spin resonance in bulk
single-wall carbon nanotubes to determine both the spin-lattice and the spin-spin relaxation …