New avenues in quantum research: supramolecular qubit candidates detected
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Researchers at the Institute of Physical Chemistry at the University of Freiburg and the Institut Charles Sadron at the University of Strasbourg were able to demonstrate for the first time that non-covalent bonds between spin centres are also capable of producing quartet states through spin mixing.
Supramolecular chemistry is thus a valuable tool for the research, development and scaling of new materials for quantum technologies.
The results were recently published in the journal Nature Chemistry.
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