Engineering coherent interactions in molecular nanomagnet dimers

npj Quantum Information

Volumn 1, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Ardavan, Arzhang ^a   Bowen, Alice M ^a   Fernandez, Antonio ^b   Fielding, Alistair J ^b   Kaminski, Danielle ^a   Moro, Fabrizio ^b   Muryn, Christopher A ^b   Wise, Matthew D ^c   Ruggi, Albert ^c   McInnes, Eric J L ^b   Severin, Kay ^c   Timco, Grigore A ^b   Timmel, Christiane R ^a   Tuna, Floriana ^b   Whitehead, George F S ^b   Winpenny, Richard E P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFECTS; QUANTUM OPTICS; QUBITS;

COHERENT INTERACTION; IDENTICAL COMPONENTS; LINKING STRATEGY; MOLECULAR COMPONENTS; MOLECULAR NANOMAGNETS; OF QUANTUM-INFORMATION; QUANTUM COHERENCE; QUANTUM INTERACTIONS;

DIMERS;

EID: 85029128966     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20566387     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npjqi.2015.12     Document Type: Article

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