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Journal of Physics D Applied Physics

Single molecule magnets for quantum computation

M. Affronte, Filippo Troiani, Alberto Ghirri, Andrea Candini, Marco Evangelisti, V. Corradini, Stefano Carretta, Paolo Maria Santini, G. Amoretti, Floriana Tuna, Grigore A. Timco, Richard E. P. Winpenny

Published May 4, 2007• 114 citations
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Abstract

We present recent achievements and perspectives for the encoding of qubits with molecular spin clusters.
DOI
10.1088/0022-3727/40/10/s01

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