Electrically driven nuclear spin resonance in single-molecule magnets

Abstract

Electrical control of nuclear spin qubits Quantum bits of information (qubits) that are based on spins of atomic nuclei are an attractive option for quantum information processing. It can sometimes be tricky to manipulate these qubits using magnetic fields directly. Thiele et al. developed a technique for electrically controlling a nuclear spin qubit in the single-molecule magnet TbPc 2 . When they hit the qubit with a microwave pulse, the microwave's electric field generated effective magnetic fields much larger than those available previously. Science , this issue p. 1135