Nature Communications (Feb 2017)

Portraying entanglement between molecular qubits with four-dimensional inelastic neutron scattering

  • E. Garlatti,
  • T. Guidi,
  • S. Ansbro,
  • P. Santini,
  • G. Amoretti,
  • J. Ollivier,
  • H. Mutka,
  • G. Timco,
  • I. J. Vitorica-Yrezabal,
  • G. F. S. Whitehead,
  • R. E. P. Winpenny,
  • S. Carretta

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14543
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Showing the presence of quantum entanglement in a system means it is beyond a classical description, but this is difficult to do experimentally. Here, the authors show how four-dimensional inelastic neutron scattering can quantify entanglement, demonstrating the method on a supramolecular dimer.