We
show that molecular nanomagnets have a potential advantage in
the crucial rush toward quantum computers. Indeed, the sizable number
of accessible low-energy states of these systems can be exploited
to define qubits with embedded quantum error correction. We derive
the scheme to achieve this crucial objective and the corresponding
sequence of microwave/radiofrequency pulses needed for the error correction
procedure. The effectiveness of our approach is shown already with
a minimal S = 3/2 unit corresponding to an existing
molecule, and the scaling to larger spin systems is quantitatively
analyzed.
We show that [Er-Ce-Er] molecular trinuclear coordination compound is a promising platform to implement the three-qubit quantum error correction code protecting against pure dephasing, the most important error in magnetic...
We discuss a cost-effective
approach to understand magnetic relaxation
in the new generation of rare-earth single-molecule magnets. It combines
ab initio calculations of the crystal field parameters, of the magneto-elastic
coupling with local modes, and of the phonon density of states with
fitting of only three microscopic parameters. Although much less demanding
than a fully ab initio approach, the method gives important physical
insights into the origin of the observed relaxation. By applying it
to high-anisotropy compounds with very different relaxation, we demonstrate
the power of the approach and pinpoint ingredients for improving the
performance of single-molecule magnets.
It is well assessed that the charge transport through a chiral potential barrier can result in spin-polarized charges. The possibility of driving this process through visible photons holds tremendous potential...
Molecular spins are promising building blocks of future quantum technologies thanks to the unparalleled flexibility provided by chemistry, which allows the design of complex structures targeted for specific applications. However, their weak interaction with external stimuli makes it difficult to access their state at the single‐molecule level, a fundamental tool for their use, for example, in quantum computing and sensing. Here, an innovative solution exploiting the interplay between chirality and magnetism using the chirality‐induced spin selectivity effect on electron transfer processes is foreseen. It is envisioned to use a spin‐to‐charge conversion mechanism that can be realized by connecting a molecular spin qubit to a dyad where an electron donor and an electron acceptor are linked by a chiral bridge. By numerical simulations based on realistic parameters, it is shown that the chirality‐induced spin selectivity effect could enable initialization, manipulation, and single‐spin readout of molecular qubits and qudits even at relatively high temperatures.
A scalable architecture for quantum computing requires logical units supporting quantum-error correction. In this respect, magnetic molecules are particularly promising, since they allow one to define logical qubits with embedded quantum-error correction by exploiting multiple energy levels of a single molecule. The single-object nature of this encoding is expected to facilitate the implementation of error correction procedures and logical operations. In this work, we make progress in this direction by showing how two-qubit gates between error-protected units can be realised, by means of easily implementable sequences of electro-magnetic pulses.
Impressive advances in the field of molecular spintronics allow one to study electron transport through individual magnetic molecules embedded between metallic leads in the purely quantum regime of single electron tunneling. Besides fundamental interest, this experimental setup, in which a single molecule is manipulated by electronic means, provides the elementary units of possible forthcoming technological applications, ranging from spin valves to transistors and qubits for quantum information processing. Theoretically, while for weakly-correlated molecular junctions established first-principles techniques do enable the system-specific description of transport phenomena, methods of similar power and flexibility are still lacking for junctions involving strongly-correlated molecular nanomagnets. Here we propose an efficient scheme based on the ab-initio construction of material-specific Hubbard models and on the master-equation formalism. We apply this approach to a representative case, the {Ni2} molecular spin dimer, in the regime of weak molecule-electrodes coupling, the one relevant for quantum-information applications. Our approach allows us to study in a realistic setting many-body effects such as current suppression and negative differential conductance. We think that this method has the potential for becoming a very useful tool for describing transport phenomena in strongly correlated molecules. arXiv:1909.01770v1 [cond-mat.str-el]
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