Nature Communications (Jul 2021)

Increasing the Hilbert space dimension using a single coupled molecular spin

  • Hugo Biard,
  • Eufemio Moreno-Pineda,
  • Mario Ruben,
  • Edgar Bonet,
  • Wolfgang Wernsdorfer,
  • Franck Balestro

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24693-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Single-molecular magnets (SMM) are promising candidates for quantum technologies given the ease of repeatable manufacture and potential as qudits. Here, Biard et al succeed in electronically reading out a SMM containing two high-spin terbium atoms, allowing for a 16 dimensional Hilbert space.