Nature Communications (Dec 2020)

Readout and control of an endofullerene electronic spin

  • Dinesh Pinto,
  • Domenico Paone,
  • Bastian Kern,
  • Tim Dierker,
  • René Wieczorek,
  • Aparajita Singha,
  • Durga Dasari,
  • Amit Finkler,
  • Wolfgang Harneit,
  • Jörg Wrachtrup,
  • Klaus Kern

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20202-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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Encasing a single atom within a fullerene (C60) cage can create a robustly packaged single atomic spin system. Here, the authors perform electron paramagnetic resonance on a single encased spin using a diamond NV-center, demonstrating the first steps in controlling single spins in fullerene cages.