Quantum information processing (QIP) is an emerging approach to computation with the potential to fundamentally transform the current digital landscape and usher in a second information age. QIP differs from its classical analogue due to its employment of quantum bits (qubits) instead of classical bits. The design of viable qubits, the smallest units of either a quantum information processing (QIP) or quantum sensing system, is an interdisciplinary challenge at the forefront of chemistry, physics, and engineering. Fundamentally, a qubit is any object that can be placed into a quantum superposition of two states. Electronic spins are a particularly promising qubit class, wherein microwave pulses facilely create and manipulate superpositions of pairs of spin orientations (<i>M</i><sub>S</sub> levels). Creating viable QIP systems from electronic spin qubits necessitates both the rational design of qubits with long coherence times, and atomic level precision over qubit location and spacing. Coordination chemistry offers tremendous promise to create and understand qubits. Studies on the effect of nuclear spin proximity on electron spin coherence and the creation of arrays of qubits will be presented.

Harnessing coordination chemistry for the construction of qubits

255th National Meeting (2018)

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