Properties and applications of photoexcited chromophore–radical systems

T Quintes, M Mayländer, S Richert - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2023 - nature.com
Photoexcited organic chromophore–radical systems hold great promise for a range of
technological applications in molecular spintronics, including quantum information …

Coherence in Chemistry: Foundations and Frontiers

JD Schultz, JL Yuly, EA Arsenault, K Parker… - Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Coherence refers to correlations in waves. Because matter has a wave-particle nature, it is
unsurprising that coherence has deep connections with the most contemporary issues in …

Direct observation of chirality-induced spin selectivity in electron donor–acceptor molecules

HJ Eckvahl, NA Tcyrulnikov, A Chiesa, JM Bradley… - Science, 2023 - science.org
The role of chirality in determining the spin dynamics of photoinduced electron transfer in
donor-acceptor molecules remains an open question. Although chirality-induced spin …

Photogenerated spin-correlated radical pairs: From photosynthetic energy transduction to quantum information science

SM Harvey, MR Wasielewski - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
More than a half century ago, the NMR spectra of diamagnetic products resulting from
radical pair reactions were observed to have strongly enhanced absorptive and emissive …

Quantum gate operations on a spectrally addressable photogenerated molecular electron spin-qubit pair

H Mao, GJ Pazera, RM Young… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Sub-nanosecond photodriven electron transfer from a molecular donor to an acceptor can
be used to generate a radical pair (RP) having two entangled electron spins in a well …

Electron spin resonance resolves intermediate triplet states in delayed fluorescence

BH Drummond, N Aizawa, Y Zhang, WK Myers… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Molecular organic fluorophores are currently used in organic light-emitting diodes, though
non-emissive triplet excitons generated in devices incorporating conventional fluorophores …

Computational tools for the simulation and analysis of spin-polarized EPR spectra

CE Tait, MD Krzyaniak, S Stoll - Journal of Magnetic Resonance, 2023 - Elsevier
The EPR spectra of paramagnetic species induced by photoexcitation typically exhibit
enhanced absorptive and emissive features resulting from sublevel populations that differ …

Exploring photogenerated molecular quartet states as spin qubits and qudits

M Maylander, S Chen, ER Lorenzo… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Photogenerated molecular spin systems hold great promise for applications in quantum
information science because they can be prepared in well-defined spin states at modest …

Excited State Magneto-Structural Correlations Related to Photoinduced Electron Spin Polarization

ML Kirk, DA Shultz, P Hewitt, J Chen… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Photoinduced electron spin polarization (ESP) is reported in the ground state of a series of
complexes consisting of an organic radical (nitronylnitroxide, NN) covalently attached to a …

A chirality-based quantum leap

CD Aiello, JM Abendroth, M Abbas, A Afanasev… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
There is increasing interest in the study of chiral degrees of freedom occurring in matter and
in electromagnetic fields. Opportunities in quantum sciences will likely exploit two main …