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Vanadyl dithiolate single molecule transistors: the next spintronic frontier?
Salvador Cardona‐serraAlejandro Gaita-ariñosubject
SpintronicsCondensed matter physicsCondensed Matter - Mesoscale and Nanoscale PhysicsTransistorSpin valveFOS: Physical sciencesVanadiumchemistry.chemical_element02 engineering and technologyQuantum devices010402 general chemistry021001 nanoscience & nanotechnologyCondensed Matter::Mesoscopic Systems and Quantum Hall Effect01 natural sciences0104 chemical scienceslaw.inventionInorganic ChemistrychemistrylawQubitMesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)MoleculeCondensed Matter::Strongly Correlated Electrons0210 nano-technologySpin (physics)description
The role of Chemistry in the road towards quantum devices is the design of elementary pieces with a built-in function. A brilliant example is the use of molecular transistors as nuclear spin detectors, which, up to now, has been implemented only on [TbPc$_2$]$^-$. We argue that this is an artificial constraint and critically discuss the limitations of current theoretical approaches to assess the potential of molecules for their use in spintronics. In connection with this, we review the recent progress in the preparation of highly coherent spin qubits based on vanadium dithiolate complexes and argue that the use of vanadyl dithiolates as single molecule transistors to read and control a triple nuclear spin qubit could give rise to new phenomena, notably including a low-current nuclear spin detection scheme by means of a spin valve effect.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-01-02 |