Nature Communications (Jan 2016)

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

  • Antonio Fernandez,
  • Jesus Ferrando-Soria,
  • Eufemio Moreno Pineda,
  • Floriana Tuna,
  • Iñigo J. Vitorica-Yrezabal,
  • Christiane Knappke,
  • Jakub Ujma,
  • Christopher A. Muryn,
  • Grigore A. Timco,
  • Perdita E. Barran,
  • Arzhang Ardavan,
  • Richard E.P. Winpenny

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10240
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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Paramagnetic heterometallic rings have long been considered as possible qubits within a quantum information processing system. Here, the authors employ supramolecular chemistry to fabricate multiple rings around multi-armed threads, as an important step towards generating useful qubit arrays.