Controlling spins and their interactions in molecular materials

Gabriel AEPPLI

A key challenge both for fundamental non-equilibrium science as well as eventual applications, most visibly to quantum computing, is the control of individual spin states and their interactions. Traditionally, the interactions are regulated by chemical means or pressure, while magnetic resonance paradigms are applied to individual spins. Approaches for more rapid setting of individual spin states and modulation of interactions, while maintaining long decoherence times after intervention, are obviously required, and we describe research on spin-carrying entities which will allow the design of such approaches.

[1] Grimm et al. PRX Quantum 2, 010312 (2021)
[2] Wu et al. Adv. Funct. Mater. 29, 1902550 (2019)