Probing Decoherence in Molecular 4f Qubits

08 July 2024, Version 2
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Abstract

We herein probe the fundamental factors that induce decoherence in ensembles of molecular magnetic materials. This is done by pulse Electron Paramagetic Resonance measurements at X-band (9.6 GHz) on single crystals of Gd@Y(trensal) at 0.5, 10^-1 , 10^-2 and 10^-3 % doping levels, using Hahn echo, partial refocusing and CPMG sequences. The phase memory time, Tm, obtained by the Hahn echo sequence at X-band is compared to the one previously determined at higher frequency/magnetic field (240 GHz). The combined information from these experiments allows to gain insight into the contributions to decoherence originating from various relaxation mechanisms such as spin-lattice relaxation, electron and nuclear spin diffusion and instantaneous diffusion. We show that while at high magnetic fields Tm is limited by spin-lattice relaxation seemingly attributed to a direct process, at lower fields the limiting factor is spectral diffusion. At X-band, for Gd@Y(trensal) we determine a Tm in the range 1 – 11 μs, at 5 K, depending on the magnetic field and concentration of Gd(trensal) in the isostructural diamagnetic host Y(trensal). Importantly, Gd@Y(trensal) displays measurable coherence at temperatures above liquid nitrogen ones, with 125 K being the upper limit. At the lowest dilution level of 10^-3 %, and under dynamic decoupling conditions, the ratio of Tm versus the time it takes t0 implement a quantum gate, TG, reaches the order of 104, in the example of a single qubit π-rotation, which corresponds to a gate fidelity of 99.99 %, reaching thus the lower limit for implementations in Quantum Information Technologies.

Keywords

Quantum Coherence
Decoherence
molecular magnetic materials
molecular qubits
quantum gates

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