Three individually addressable spin qubits in a single molecule

Chem Commun (Camb). 2022 Jul 5;58(54):7530-7533. doi: 10.1039/d2cc02495k.

Abstract

An asymmetric bis-phenol-β-diketone (H4L) has been designed as a ligand programmed to promote the assembly of a molecular arrangement composed of three magnetically exchanged [NiCu] pairs, each exhibiting an S = 1/2 spin. The latter are shown by EPR and magnetometry to be good qubit realizations and non-equivalent within the molecule in the solid state, as required for conditional quantum gates.