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O: Fachverband Oberflächenphysik

O 60: Focussed Session: Organic Materials for Spintronics: From Spinterface to Devices (jointly with DS, HL, and MA)

O 60.4: Topical Talk

Thursday, March 14, 2013, 11:00–11:30, H32

Molecular Quantum Spintronics — •Mario Ruben — Institut für Nanotechnologie (INT), Karlsruhe Institut für Technologie (KIT) — Institut de Physique et Chimie (IPCMS); Université de Strasbourg (UdS)

Molecules can be considered as physical Quantum Objects. Magnetic molecules consist of an atomic core of one-to-few open spin ions surrounded by a shell of organic material. At low temperature such molecular spin objects behave as simple, few-level systems.[1,2] Since quantum coherence and stable entanglement of electron spins are extremely difficult to achieve, alternative concepts propose the use of nuclear spins as quantum information carrier. Nuclear spins are extremely well isolated from environment and less prone to decoherence, and the coherent manipulation can be adapted by tailoring the molecular environment. However, although being well isolated from their surroundings, nuclear spins have to be addressed, ideally electronically since complementary with existing technologies. The delicate balance between decoupling of the magnetic molecule for stable coherence and connecting it for read out can be carried out by synthetic engineering of the molecular components. The first example of a completely electronic read out of a nuclear spin of a lanthanide ion (bearing electron and nuclear spins) embedded in a magnetic molecule TbPc2, was recently reported.[3] [1] M. Urdampilleta et.al. Nature Mater. 10, 502 (2011) [2] J. Schwöbel, et. al. Nature Comms. 2, 1953 (2012) [3] R. Vincent, et. al. Nature 488, 357 (2012)