Theory Seminar: Spin Relaxation and Coherence in Molecular Nanomagnets and Molecular Spin Qubits

Luis Escalera (ICMOL, Valencia)

Molecular magnetism offers a promising approach for dense storage of classical information in the form of nanomagnets

March 10, 2021

Luis Escalera (ICMOL, Valencia)
Group Seminar via Zoom
Wed 10.03.2021, 11:30 MEZ

Abstract:

Molecular magnetism offers a promising approach for dense storage of classical information in the form of nanomagnets. These tiny objects presents the advantage of tailoring their key parameters mostly at will -with the aim of matching given requirements or optimal conditions- by means of chemical design. While this field got stuck because of their extremely low working temperature, the recent discovery of new molecular nanomagnets operating around the nitrogen boiling point has reinvigorated the research in this area. This has only been possible after combined efforts between experiment and first-principles calculations that are focusing attention on the spin-vibration coupling


In this seminar, we will firstly give an overview on molecular nanomagnets paying attention to the emerging theoretical methods that are guiding the synthetic efforts at the lab stage. The second part is devoted to the use and characterization of molecular nanomagnets as building-blocks for quantum information processing, widely known as molecular spin qubits. We will also comment on recent advances drawing the attention on a particular strategy to produce decoherence-protected molecular qubits in the form of zero first-order Zeeman (ZEFOZ) shifts.

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