Communications Physics (Feb 2023)

Electron-nuclear decoupling at a spin clock transition

  • Krishnendu Kundu,
  • Jia Chen,
  • Silas Hoffman,
  • Jonathan Marbey,
  • Dorsa Komijani,
  • Yan Duan,
  • Alejandro Gaita-Ariño,
  • John Stanton,
  • Xiaoguang Zhang,
  • Hai-Ping Cheng,
  • Stephen Hill

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-023-01152-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 6, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Magnetic molecules have chemically tunable electronic states that could be used for quantum technologies, but they are often surrounded by a nuclear spin bath causing decoherence. In this study, the authors experimentally investigate the electron-nuclear coupling approaching the clock transition and develop a simple theoretical model which gives a good qualitative understanding of the observed dynamics.